Mobile
Application Development: Options and New Trends
The sway that mobile
devices hold over the whole industry provides a stirring opportunity for
website owners and web developers. They are gnawing their applications into
these gadgets while cross-platform
mobile applications and website interfaces are set to fire their salvo into
this vibrant sphere.
Whether it is for iPad, iPhone,
Blackberry or Android a
compatible application is every website’s gateway to exposure. In creating
applications a list of HTML5 frameworks for mobile development provides a
starting block- Ripple helps to test and debug the application on
multiple platforms like JavaScript.
An impressive built-in Geolocation module enables testing of
geolocation-related applications.
LungoJS which is supplied with full features of HTML5, CSS3 and
JavaScript can implement essential features such as Geolocation, History,
Device Orientation and WebSQL.This framework does not require any web server
support.
Joshfire is an open source
mobile development framework that supports HTML5 and JavaScript. This
framework will run on iPad, iPhone,
Android and even on TVs and connected objects.
Sencha fully supports HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript. Our applications can
be equipped with HTML audio and video components, local storage element and
CSS3 styling effects. They can be adapted to iOS, Blackberry and Android
devices.
Jo creates applications compatible with iOS, Android, Blackberry drawing the cream
of CSS technology to solve design and animation issues.
Kendo UI is a set of
HTML5 controls released late last year is quite akin to though it claims
non-compliance with jQuery but when we try to use it, a lot of jQuery- style
codes appear enmeshed.
In developing a web-based application it is necessary to ensure that our application
is compatible with browsers in use today. Much less of a problem for the mobile
world because of the rampant purchase of new devices and the advancement in
technology incorporated in them. But our site needs to be tested with intended
user devices.
New trends have emerged in the form of writing Ruby instead of Objective
C. It was released in May this year in the form of Ruby Motion to develop and test native
applications for Ipad and Iphone. For those accustomed to Ruby language this is quite an amazing
make-over.
Before we set foot on the development phase let us decide whether to use Android, Apple or Blackberry models.
A recent Forrester survey of 4000 information workers in 17 different countries
found usages were in equal measure with Blackberry taking a light jab.
Mobile Development Platform helps
low-power handheld devices such as mobile phones and digital assistants handle
pre-installed applications during manufacture of these gadgets. But with the
proliferation of Smartphone’s, tablets and mobiles it is necessary to take a
relook at preinstalled software. Needless to mention, we cannot waste
precious time developing new applications for each and every device.
Cross-platform framework has now
emerged as a solution to this problem. A hybrid mixture of HTML5, JavaScript
along with extra libraries provides enhanced access to the device over a pure
HTML5 web application. Local Storage in excess of 5 MB, photos upload,
background services run are all possible.
Leading this field is the PhoneGap
framework- now donated to Apache Software Foundation as an open source
project and renamed Apache Cordova. It provides a platform-specific
wrapper for Android, iOS, Blackberry and Windows Phone, and exposes a
platform-independent API to code against in JavaScript.
The final hitch is how we build the platform. For instance iOS requires Mac,
Windows Phone calls for a Windows PC and the others come with a price tag.
Today Mobile Development with options
and new trends has come to stay and the web developers are now
all over the platform scouting for an entry on the mobile bandwagon.
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