Useful Tools for Multi-Platform Mobile Application Development
Today, it has become easy for developers to develop desktop applications. Developers are provided with 3 OS platforms: Windows, Linux and Mac OS to choose from and there are often ways to make the software written on one platform run on others. Presently technology is a fast business and the great thing today, might not be a great thing tomorrow. So developers started developing mobile applications using multi-platforms and one cannot underestimate the benefits of multi-platform applications. Fortunately, there are some great tools for developing multi-platform mobile applications which are as below –
Phone-Gap
Phone-Gap is a FOSS environment that helps the developers to create apps for Android, iPhone, Blackberry, Symbian, i-Pad and iPod Touch devices. The platform uses standard web development languages like Java Script and HTML. This also allows the developers to work with hardware features like – GPS, camera, accelerometer, sound and many others. Phone-Gap offers online training courses to the developers to help them in accessing native API’s.
Whoop
This is a perfect app for non-developers. This tool helps the non-developers to develop mobile applications by dragging and dropping mobile elements. Even if the person does not have any technical knowledge, he/she can still get some cross-formatting done with Whoop. Whoop allows the developers to export their application in various formats depending on the operating system, including iPhone, Android, Blackberry, Widows Mobile and more.
Rho-Mobile
This tool offers Rhodes, which is a Ruby based open-source framework. This allows the developers to create native apps for a wide range of Smartphones and operating systems including – Android, iPhone, Blackberry, Windows mobile, Symbian etc. The best thing about this program is that, it lets the developer to write code only once and use it to build app for all the major Smartphones.
Widget-Pad
Widget-pad is an open source environment for creating Smartphone apps. This program uses standard web development languages like – HTML 5, CSS# and JavaScript. The platform has features like – source code editing, project management, collaboration, debugging, version and distribution. Widget-Pad is currently in private Beta and can be used to build apps for Android, i-OS and Web-OS.
Appcelerator
The Appcelerator’s Titanium Development platform helps in developing native mobile, desktop and tablet apps and uses web programming languages like – HTML, JavaScript, Ruby, PHP and Phyton. This tool allows the users to access more than 300 APIs and location information. The apps can be based totally on the hardware, where the app data is stored on the device or in the cloud. This platform also offers metrics which are customizable for events and actions.
No matter whatever the tool the developers use, they must ensure that it will help the users complete their task with ease and efficiency.
Source by Anand Raju
