Introduction
If there is a market for developing apps then there must be a market to help develop these apps. The dynamism of the app market demands a quick turnaround time for development of apps and launch. Else, the app may not be able to cash in on the trend. Enter framework providers who provide the platform/framework, necessary APIs and pre-programmed modules to help develop mobile apps quickly. This greatly reduces the time taken from visualization to programming, testing and launch of the app.
Mobile Application Development Frameworks
Here are some of the key mobile app development frameworks which are commonly used in the industry, please mind this is not an exhaustive list of frameworks.
Titanium: also called Appcelarator Titanium, this mobile application development platform provider uses web based technologies to support development for Android and iPhone based mobile applications. Titanium has a library of over 5000 APIs that can help in developing rich hybrid apps or mobile web and native apps. It also provides location information. It lets the developers use their existing skills and with additional knowledge of Titanium API, develop and deploy applications either for the Android client of the iPhone client. It uses a JavaScript Engine to execute the program.
Titanium expanded its architecture to include support to applications running exclusively on iPads. Action and events can be coded with the help of its metrics.
Titanium currently has more than 400K developers using its open source SDK to create wonderful apps. Titanium also has capabilities for cloud based services and market place modules.
PhoneGap: is a mobile app development platform product offered by Adobe for the applications development community. It uses an amalgam of three components: HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript to help app developers construct their applications on its platform and execute them.
The software forming the schema of this framework is open source software and is called Apache Cordova. The rendering is performed by HTML5 and CSS3 while JavaScript executes the program across OS platforms.
The output of applications from this platform is hybrid, that is, it is part native and part web based. This downside is that it takes relatively longer time to load though it is just a small downside compared to the enormous benefits this platform offers.
RhoMobile: this mobile app development platform is open source and supports mobile app development in all popular OS. Composed of three parts: RhoConnect, RhoStudio and RhoElements, this framework empowers you to code your application once and render it to different OS based mobiles. This framework allows the mobile to utilize the hardware in mobiles to accomplish the relevant tasks.
Prospects
In the fast changing mobile app development world, platforms such as these that help hasten the development process is a sure welcome. This would in turn reduce the time taken to launch the product in app market. What we need is more robust multiplatform, multi access type frameworks that would stand the test of time. That the development is proceeding towards this goal is heartening.
Endeavour Software Technologies is a CMMI Level 3 assessed mobility company. Established in 2002, this rapidly growing company has been providing mobile application development, application testing, strategic consulting, and technology services. It provides a bouquet of consulting services as well in mobility and enterprise mobile network management in diverse fields like health, banking, retail, insurance and so on.
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