How to optimize costs by making both a website and a mobile application at the same time?

Question

Mobile development

Hello. I'm working on a project that needs both a website and a mobile app.
Maybe there are some ways / technologies that minimize costs?
What kind of strategy to choose? The application repeats the full functionality of the site.

Answer 1

REST

Answer 2

www.appsgeyser.com

Answer 3

Make a good API for a mobile application. Follow the principle: one screen = one request. There are many reasons for that, I will describe them in an article on Habré somehow, if you are interested of course.
This will be the fastest option.
And yes, make the application native. All these appcelerators and other mobile frameworks based on various technologies a la html and js look extremely ridiculous. They don’t know how to work normally with memory, connections, there is no caching, as well as many functions. There are crutches and bicycles everywhere.