A-Z of Cross-Platform
Mobile App Development Tools to trend in Year 2017
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PhoneGap is the original and most popular distribution of Apache Cordova. It turns HTML, CSS and JavaScript into an app using their desktop and developer apps.
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AnyPresence provides a secure, scalable way to build enterprise apps that connect to source systems and accelerate your journey to mobility and beyond.
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Appcelerator facilitates coding in JavaScript, and offer features such as real-time mobile analytics, MbaaS, drag-and-drop palette, and achieves 60% to 90% of code reuse when publishing on different platforms.
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App Builder is a complete IDE for Microsoft Windows which allows to create HTML5 and native apps without programming knowledge. Offers dozens of controls and actions ready to be used in your apps and lot of app samples to learn it.
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Cocoon is a Cordova based cloud service for building native HTML5 apps and games. Cocoon is focused on providing the best webview engines and features like Canvas+, JS encryption or a custom Developer App.
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Evothings Studio provides Cordova developers with a rapid development workflow, tutorials and example apps for the Internet of Things. Support for Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) and other IoT related technologies.
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Framework7 is a free and open source mobile HTML framework for developing hybrid mobile apps or web apps with iOS & Android native look and feel.
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GapDebug is a free tool for debugging and managing hybrid-mobile Android and iOS apps. With Drag and drop App Installation, Instant debugging, and full cross-platform support, GapDebug provides user-friendly debugging ways.
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HTML5 IDE with Cordova-specific tools for project configuration, plugin management, integrated emulation and debugging, on-device preview and live reload, cloud-based build and more.
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Ionic is a front-end SDK for building cross-platform mobile apps. Built on top of Angular, Ionic also provides a platform for integrating services like push notifications and analytics.
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Kinvey delivers support for any modern mobile app experience, a complete set of backend services every app needs, Analytics for usage, security, compliance, and support, Great development, CI/CD, and SDLC experience.
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Kony is an integrated, intuitive development environment for prototyping and building fully native mobile and web applications across phones, tablets, wearables and desktops - all from a single code base.
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Mobiscroll is a collection of cross platform UI controls for delivering polished iOS, Android & Windows Phone apps. Framework agnostic, use it with plain Javascript, jQuery, Angular, React or Knockout.
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Comprehensive cloud-powered and framework-agnostic set of tools Monaca supports both online and offline development, debugging with live-reload feature and cloud build experience.
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NSB/AppStudio is an IDE for webapps/native apps. One step install includes complete PhoneGap integration, plus Bootstrap, jQuery Mobile and jqWidgets. Drag and Drop Designer. Easy programming in JavaScript or BASIC. Windows and MacOS.
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Custom Elements-based HTML5 framework offers a large selection of components and responsive layout support. Onsen UI lets you create professionally designed multiplatform apps without acquiring additional skillset.
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Outsystems is a low-code development platform that lets the user build an enterprise-grade, business-to-consumer app or a complex field service solution.
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Telerik Platform is a complete mobile app development platform for developing hybrid and native apps with JavaScript. It allows to use their free and open source Kendo UI framework with Telerik Platform to address every stage of application lifecycle - from idea.
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Red Hat Mobile Application Platform supports an agile approach to developing, integrating, and deploying enterprise mobile applications—whether native, hybrid, or on the web.
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Salesforce lets you customize Salesforce1 Mobile App for your business, Add the Custom Actions you perform, Build point-and-click Custom Apps.
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Popular IDE for building cross-platform apps for Android, iOS, and Windows. Complete with advanced build and debugging support.
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Microsoft’s Xamarin enables developers to build applications for different operating systems, using a single programming language, code base, and class library. It supports both Model-View-Controller (MVC) and Model View ViewModel (MVVM) patterns.
News Flash
Open-source Automation Tools release updates are:
- Calabash-Android released a newer version 0.9.0
Download link | Release notes - Calabash-iOS released a newer version 0.20.4
Download link | Release notes - Appium released a newer version 1.6.3
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Mobile OS release updates are:
- Apple released a newer iOS version 10.2 (build 14C92)
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* iOS version 10.2 download link is accessible using an Apple Developer account only - Google released a newer Android Nougat version 7.1.1 (API 25) (build NMF26*)
Download link | Release notes - Microsoft released a newer Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 14977 for Mobile
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Mobile OS SDK release updates are:
- Apple released a newer Xcode version 8.2.1
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* Xcode version 8.2.1 download link is accessible using an Apple Developer account only - Android SDK’s new dependencies versions are:
Download link | Release notes- SDK Tools 25.2.4 - SDK Build-Tools 25.0.2 - SDK Platform 25.3 - SDK Platform-Tools 25.0.3
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