Over the last year, a lot of smartphones have flooded the mobile market. They all offer a variety of applications that make the smartphone more user friendly and adaptive. Users are now increasingly looking for applications that can be used across mobile platforms.
Most app developers want to target at least the iPhone, Android, and Blackberry platforms if not more. Developers with applications that are compatible across all platforms will definitely have a competitive advantage. There are various tools that are available for developers who are considering developing a cross platform mobile app. Here’s a list of the few good tools that can be used for cross platform mobile app development:
Rhomobile - Rhomobile offers a Ruby-based framework that enables developers to create applications for various smartphone devices and operating systems. Rhodes is the name of the open-sourced framework that is used. With this framework, developers are only required to write the code once. From the initial code, Rhodes can quickly modify the application’s code to build apps for different platforms, operating systems or smartphones. RhoHub and RhoSync help developers keep application data current on mobile devices.
PhoneGap - PhoneGap is a HTML5 app platform that allows you to author native applications with web technologies and get access to APIs and appstore. It allows app development for iPhone, iTouch, iPAD, Android, Blackberry, Symbian and Palm, becoming one of the few products that supports almost all major platforms. The company offers a cross-platform simulator (an Adobe AIR app), as well as online training sessions to help you access native APIs and build functioning mobile apps on the PhoneGap platform.
Corona - Corona's framework dramatically increases productivity. Tasks like animating objects in OpenGL or creating user-interface widgets takes only one line of code, and changes are instantly viewable in the Corona Simulator. You can rapidly test without lengthy build times.
Appcelerator - Titanium empowers you to create immersive, full-featured applications that go beyond browser boundaries and stick with your audience whenever and wherever they are. Once built, Titanium-based applications can be tested, packaged, and distributed through the Appcelerator Network’s cloud services. The Titanium platform is open source, so you may also access the source code to the complete application at any time for your own use.
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One to add to your list is Application Craft (http://applicationcraft.com)
jQuerymobile has announced AC as a JQM dev platform and here's a case study that Phonegap did on them : http://phonegap.com/case_study/phonegap-application-craft-pain-free-mobile-app-development/
In summary, it’s a cloud-based dev platform that does mobile (all important platforms) and desktop on an equal footing. It's got an IDE that does drag-and-drop / WYSIWYG UI building as well as code editing. I guess you could describe it as Visual Basic in the Cloud, but Javascript not Basic. Widget based like VB was, extensible. Open Source with free platform offering.
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