On the contrary: some of the above shortcomings can be addressed through a hybrid app approach, in which significant parts of an app are written in Web technology, but with aspects of native code in an HTML5 wrapper.

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Inside this is code from Bluestacks that acts as a wrapper around the mobile phone programs so they can run on desktops, laptops and tablets.

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Like Adobe's Flash, Silverlight acted as a wrapper that, once installed on a machine, allowed that device to run code written for it.

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