Best 5 Mobile Application Development
Frameworks
With a huge rise in mobile apps, the field of mobile applica7on development is also on the race to achieve the speed and perfec7on of the execu7on. Various mobile applica7on development frameworks have been developed for the speedy and easy development of mobile apps. But the search for some of the best frameworks is s7ll on. We are discussing here some of the best mobile applica7ons development frameworks currently available. These frameworks provide a great value in reusing the code rather than re-‐inven7ng the whole wheel.
1. Phonegap
With a huge rise in mobile apps, the field of mobile applica7on development is also on the race to achieve the speed and perfec7on of the execu7on. Various mobile applica7on development frameworks have been developed for the speedy and easy development of mobile apps. But the search for some of the best frameworks is s7ll on. We are discussing here some of the best mobile applica7ons development frameworks currently available. These frameworks provide a great value in reusing the code rather than re-‐inven7ng the whole wheel.
1. Phonegap
PhoneGap gives programmers the ability to use HTML5 standards to write your mobile applica7ons while also providing a JavaScript SDK to access na7ve device capabili7es. This is one of the best capabili7es that PhoneGap have, which makes it a clear differen7ator. Simply put, if you want to re-‐use the same code that you deploy with your HTML5 enterprise desktop apps across other tablet, mobile and connected TV plaMorms, PhoneGap is the right choice. It lets you u7lize not only HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript, but also all of other frameworks, like jQuery Mobile, Sencha, etc. It also provides a cloud service named PhoneGap Build that allows you to quickly build mobile applica7ons and easily compile them without SDKs, compilers and hardware.
2. Sencha Touch
Sencha Touch is a high-‐performance HTML5 mobile applica7on framework. Built for enabling world-‐class user experiences, Sencha Touch is the framework that enables developers to build fast and impressive apps that work on iOS, Android, BlackBerry, Kindle Fire, and more.
Sencha Touch includes a set of GUI-‐based controls (or components) for use within mobile web applica7ons. These components are op7mized for touch input. The components are: bu[ons with device specific themes and effects; toolbars and menus; form elements such as text fields for email, date picker, and address; sliders, selectors, and combo-‐boxes; a list component with momentum-‐scrolling and an index bar; bo[om toolbars; movable tabs; a minimal icon set; and a map component with support for mul7-‐touch gestures such as pinch and zoom. All the components can be styled using a theme according to the target device.
2. Sencha Touch
Sencha Touch has four in-‐built transi7on effects: slide over or under the current element, pop, flip, and cube. It supports common touch gestures built from touch events, which are Web standards but supported only by Android, iOS, and some touch enabled devices. These are tap, double tap, swipe, scroll, and pinch.
3. jQuery MobilejQuery Mobile is a touch-‐op7mized mobile web framework. It is compa7ble with a wide variety of smartphones and tablet computers, which has become necessary feature of mobile apps development framework, due to growing but heterogeneous tablet and smartphone market. The jQuery Mobile framework is compa7ble with other mobile app frameworks and plaMorms such as PhoneGap, Worklight and more. jQuery Mobile's emphasis on seman7c markup and progressive enhancement makes it easy to use.
4. Appcelerator Titanium
Appcelerator Titanium is an open and extensible development environment for crea7ng na7ve apps across different mobile devices and OSs including iOS, Android, Windows and BlackBerry, as well as hybrid and HTML5. It includes an open source SDK with over 5,000 device and mobile opera7ng system APIs, Studio, a powerful Eclipse-‐based IDE, Alloy, an MVC framework and Cloud Services for a ready-‐to-‐use mobile backend.
5. RhodesRhodes is a framework for building locally execu7ng, device-‐op7mized mobile applica7ons. These applica7ons are op7mized to interact with transac7onal enterprise applica7on backend. They are also designed to work with synced local data using a local database, such as SQLite or HSQLDB, and a generic backend synchroniza7on framework, such as RhoConnect. Rhodes is available for iPhone, Blackberry, Windows and Android phones.
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