Some Useful Tools for Cross-Platform Mobile Apps

Developing cross-platform mobile apps can be an exasperating task for developers because each platform is unique and exhibits different features, capabilities and behaviour. But nowadays, multi-platform apps are truly popular and successful. Therefore as a developer, one needs to find solutions to develop the best cross-formatted apps, without exhausting all the resources on developing for just a couple of platforms at one time.

Fortunately, some great multi-platform mobile application development tools are available in the market today that are helpful to the developers for achieving their target. Here is a list of the top 5 development tools for cross-formatting mobile applications.

• RhoMobile- RhoMobile offers Rhodes, which is an open-source framework based on Ruby. This permits the developer to create native apps, spanning over a wide range of OS and smartphones that include Android, Windows Mobile, Symbian, iPhone and RIM.The framework supplied by RhoMobile is such that you only need to code once. This code can be used to build apps for most of the major smartphones. Native apps are great for working with available hardware, which makes the job of developers easier, and more accurate.
• PhoneGap-  PhoneGap, which won great acclaim at Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco’s 2009 Launch Pad event, is an FOSS environment that allows developers to create apps for Android, Palm, Symbian, BlackBerry, iPhone, iTouch and iPad devices. This platform uses standard web development languages such as HTML and JavaScript. PhoneGap allows the developer to work with device hardware features such as accelerometer, GPS/location, camera, sound and much more. PhoneGap additionally offers an Adobe AIR app and online training courses to help the developer access native API’s and build mobile apps on its own platform.
• Appcelerator- The Titanium Development Platform from Appcelerator, supports the development of native mobile, tablet and desktop apps via web programming languages such as HTML, PHP, JavaScript, Ruby and Python. It now powers over a 1,000 native apps per month. The best thing about Titanium is that it gives users an easy access to over 300 APIs and location information. Additionally, Appcelerator also offers customizable metrics for actions and events. Apps can be totally hardware-based and all app data can be stored either in the cloud or on the device.  
• MoSync- MoSync, yet another FOSS multi-platform mobile apps development SDK tool, is based on standard web programming. This SDK offers the developer integrated compilers, libraries, runtimes, device profiles and other useful tools. While support for JavaScript, PHP, Ruby, Python and such other languages is planned, MoSync now includes Eclipse-based IDE for C/C++ programming. MoSync offers support for several types of OS, including Windows Mobile, Android, Symbian, Moblin and even a mobile Linux distro.

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