Top 6 tools to create cross platform mobile applications

by M2soft Solutions web solutions

lets start with What is cross platform mobile app development :

Cross-platform mobile development refers to the development of mobile apps that can be used on multiple mobile platforms.

In Mobile Application Development Cross-platform apps are the “in-thing”. So as a Mobile App Developer, it is essential to develop best cross-formatted apps.

Tools

1. Phone -gap :

It is a award-winning Platform that can create applications for Symbian, Android, Blackberry, Palm, iOS (iPhone and iPads) and Windows. These developers write their applications based on web shortcuts such as JavaScript, HTML, and CSS3. It is also open source and free, so there are no licensing costs. PhoneGap works systematically, and provides developers an easy access to hardware components.

2. Appcelerator :

This platforms uses web technology such as PHP, JavaScript, HTML, Python and Ruby to allow cross platform compatibility between platforms. This platform gives users access to over 300 API’s and location information to access easily.

3. Sencha Touch :

It is a HTML5 mobile application framework for iPhone, Android, and BlackBerry. It can be used to develop UI’s for mobile web applications that have a look and feel like those of native applications on the supported mobile devices.

4. Whoop

whoop claims that we are "the one-stop mobile app publishing platform for non-developers". It is considered as one of the best ways to go for beginners in mobile development and those seeking beta versions of their projects. But it is very basic and misses out important requirements for the latest features on hardware, even though it is very easy to use.

5. MoSync

It is an advanced tool for developing cross-platform apps. This SDK provides the developers with many useful tools such as runtimes, libraries, integrated compilers and more.MoSync is largely eclipse-like and supports C/C++, PHP, Python, Ruby, JavaScript, and Java. It includes Eclipse based IDE and supports C/C++, PHP, Python, Ruby, JavaScript, and Java. MoSync supports OS’ such as Android, Windows Mobile, Moblin, Symbian, Mobile Linux distro.

6. RhoMobile

It is an integrated framework based on Ruby. Rhomobile is used to develop apps that can be used on several other mobile OS. It allows native applications to be developed for Symbian, Android, Windows Mobile, iOS and RIM. RhoMobile provides a framework, which needs the developer to just code once. This same code can be used to develop apps for different OS’.

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