It is common for cross platform
mobile app formatting to get troublesome. Each platform is unique in terms of
its features, behavior and capabilities. However, multi-platform mobile
development is the ‘talk’ of the mobile industry, and mobile app developers
are continually focusing on devising solutions that help create the best
cross-format apps; that is, without spending all your resources on creating for
a few platforms at the same time.
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RhoMobile
Based on Ruby, this open source framework offers
Rhodes. RhoMobile permits the developers to build native apps that cover a
broad range of outstanding OS and smartphones. Some of major OS supported by
RhoMobile for cross platform development are iPhone, Windows Mobile, Android,
RIM and Symbian. Using this framework, you only have to code once. That code
can then be used to create apps for a number of major smartphones. Native
applications are highly compatible with available hardware, so you can perform
cross platform development with ease, accuracy and speed.
Moreover, RhoMobile provides two additional components
to mobile application developers- RhoHub,
which is a hosted development environment, and RhoSync, which can be used as a standalone server to keep all the
application data updated on the users’ handheld devices.
· Appcelerator
This Titanium Development Platform provided by Appcelerator
helps in the development of native mobile, desktop and tablet apps through programming
languages like PHP, JavaScript, HTML, Python and Ruby. Currently, it runs over
a thousand native apps per month. The most useful aspect of Titanium is that it
gives users, easy access to more than 300 APIs and location information. Also,
Appcelerator provides customizable measures that mobile app developers can put
to good use for creating different actions and events. The applications can be
purely hardware-based and all app data can be saved either in the cloud or on
the device.
