Submitted By : MobilePundits

Cross platform mobile development

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On July 2008 Apple’s iPhone was launched in the market and made a record in the mobile phone market for its overall success. These thing shows that people like innovative products and Apple’s founder late Mr. Steve Jobs told that Mobile phones are not only for communication it is a way of life. I think Steve had a great perception power to see the future because what they have started is now become a trend and most of big brands and companies are now competing each other in this sector.

Why need of Cross Platform ?

When other companies were selling mobile

phones Apple were planning for big that is called

smart phone. Apple has started a new era of

smart phones where phones are not only a

device of communication it is a Gadget which is

very useful for our daily life. Apple’s iPhone was

equipped with lots of mobile applications when it

was launched. Apple doesn’t allow installing third-

party native apps code to their devices. This thing

shows that Apple have made dominance in the

mobile market because there was only one

platform in which applications can be developed

under the apple guidelines.

Now its android turn to rule the market, when it was

launched on 2008 it was not getting great results as

Apple got. Slightly android become a leading Mobile

Os in the market because they have different market

strategy unlike Apple.

But the problem was still exists because the

developers can develop mobile applications only for

specific devices and platforms. The solution for this

problem has come with a concept which was very

simple. The concept says that a mobile application

will develop only once and will run on multiple

platforms. This is called cross platform mobile app

development which is widely used in the mobile

application development.

There are many cross platform mobile development

technologies through which we can develop mobile

applications for multiple platform and devices. As we all

know that it reduces the development cost and gives

better performance. Some of the best Cross platform

mobile development tools are as follows.

Cross Platform Technologies !

1. Sencha Touch 2

2. jQuery Mobile

3. Tiggzi

4. AppMakr

5. iBuildApp

6. Widgetbox

7. foneFrame

8. PhoneGap

9. PhoneGap Build

10. appMobi XDK

PhoneGap : PhoneGap development is very popular these days and it is used for high performance mobile application development services. It is basically a framework where people can develop mobile apps according to their need and demand. The main benefit of this framework is that we can develop mobile applications with the help of some web-based technologies like HTML5 development, CSS3, and javascript. HTML 5 is very powerful tool and it is good for web-based mobile apps. CSS and java scripts are also enhance the power of PhoneGap developers as javascript is mainly used for validations and CSS is used for UI and other designing issues.

What is PhoneGap ?