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Mobile Platform apps are getting wide acceptance by the day. As the cost of developing native apps is still high, the demand for cross platform app development tools is growing even faster.
PhoneGap
PhoneGap is probably the most well-known cross platform development brand within the development community. The now Adobe-owned tool is a free and open-source framework based on Apache Cordova. PhoneGap let’s you develop mobile apps for 8 different platforms including Android and iOS using web technologies and has been around for some time now earning developer’s trust.
Appcelerator Titanium
Appcelerator Titanium is another very popular platform focused on enterprise and it lets developers write JavaScript with its Alloy MVC framework and boasts more than 5000 APIs for iOS, Android, Windows, Blackberry and HTML5.
Now in news is that Appcelerator also offers a virtual private cloud option for enterprise customers. The enterprise product also comes with analytics, performance management and monitoring and dedicated infrastructure.
Xamarin
Xamarin is a cross platform tool to develop mobile apps in C#. Since the apps built with Xamarin are native, the user interfaces look and feel like native apps coupled with native grade performance. Xamarin recently had an attracting a record-setting $54m investment. Since the release of Xamarin 2 in the last year or so, the company has surfaced as one of the leading solutions for cross-platform development. They have made partnership with IBM, Xoriant, and with Microsoft.
RhoMobile
RhoMobile is a set of development tools for creating data-centric, cross-platform, native mobile consumer and enterprise applications. It consists of a set of tools for cross platform app development for building, testing, debugging, integrating, deploying and managing consumer and enterprise apps using web skills. It supports Android, iOS and Windows Phone app development in Eclipse using a powerful plugin.
MoSync
MoSync, integrated with the Eclipse development environment, is a free and open-source set of tools for building cross platform apps. The SDK lets you develop native mobile applications for multiple platforms using C/C++ or HTML5. It is provided under a dual license scheme.
Kony
Kony offers a range of tools to help business create apps from a single code base, as part of its enterprise Mobility Platform. The platform is used by developers to write, deploy and manage mobile applications for native and web channels. It uses JavaScript and features simple drag and drop reusable widgets and the ability to import existing or third party libraries.
Sencha
Sencha showcases all of the design and development tools required to build robust, cross-platform apps that run on all major mobile platforms (iOS, Android, Windows Phone, and BlackBerry). They provide a variety of tools for cross platform app development such as Sencha Architect, Sencha Animator, and more. Ext JS 5, the main product by Sencha for enterprise users lets developers create HTML5 apps, which can then be converted into native apps with PhoneGap. Even the most complex applications for mobile devices can be built quickly and easily.
Mobile Web apps offer a quick and simple entry into cross-platform development. To conclude, cross platform mobile apps development disclose that native development is not necessary when implementing mobile information systems. A cross-platform approach may prove as the most efficient method even when only a single platform is to be supported, due to its low barriers. The main advantage of the cross-platform frameworks is code reuse.
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