Mobile application development using Salesforce has been a hot topic for the last few years, starting with the use of various well-known mobile frameworks, such as jQuery mobile, and AngularJS, along with Salesforce's own APIs, including OAuth for authentication, and the Salesforce REST API to access Standard and Custom Object records, leading up to the current development around the latest Salesforce Mobile application.
The interesting thing about this is that it has evolved in a different way to the browser UI, which started with the standard declarative-driven UI and could then be augmented with a more developer-driven solution, such as Visualforce. For a mobile UI, up until the release of Salesforce Mobile, we only had the option of building a custom UI with a developer.
As things stand today, we now have both options available for building...