The influence that mobile devices have on the entire industry offers a great opportunity for website owners and web developers. They are gnawing at their apps on these devices, while cross-platform mobile apps and website interfaces are set to fire their salvo in this vibrant sphere.
Whether it’s for iPad, iPhone, Blackberry or Android, a compatible app is the gateway to every website’s exposure. When building apps, a list of HTML5 frameworks for mobile development provides a starting block: Ripple helps test and debug the app across multiple platforms like JavaScript.
An impressive built-in geolocation module allows testing of geolocation related applications.
Supplied with full HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript features, LungoJS can implement essential features such as Geolocation, History, Device Orientation and WebSQL.
Joshfire is an open source mobile development framework that supports HTML5 and JavaScript. This framework will run on iPad, iPhone, Android, and even 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 by taking advantage of the cream of CSS technology to solve design and animation problems.
Kendo UI is a set of HTML5 controls released late last year, it’s quite similar, although it claims to be non-jQuery compliant, but when we try to use it, a lot of jQuery style code appears intertwined.
When developing a web-based application, it is necessary to ensure that our application is compatible with the browsers in use today. Much less of a problem for the mobile world due to the rampant purchase of new devices and the advancement in the technology embedded in them. But our site must be tested with the devices of the intended users.
New trends have emerged in the way of writing Ruby instead of Objective C. It was released in May this year in the form of Ruby Motion for developing and testing native applications for Ipad and Iphone. For those used to the Ruby language, this is a pretty amazing makeover.
Before we set foot in the development phase, let’s decide whether to use the Android, Apple, or Blackberry models. A recent Forrester survey of 4,000 information workers in 17 different countries found that usages were to the same extent with Blackberry taking a slight hit.
The Mobile Development Platform helps low-power portable devices, such as mobile phones and digital assistants, to handle applications pre-installed during the manufacturing of these devices. But with the proliferation of smartphones, tablets and mobiles, it is necessary to review the pre-installed software. It goes without saying that we cannot waste precious time developing new apps for each and every device.
The cross-platform framework has now emerged as a solution to this problem. A hybrid mix of HTML5, JavaScript along with additional libraries provides improved device access over a pure HTML5 web application. Local storage greater than 5 MB, uploading photos, and running services in the background are possible.
Leading this field is the PhoneGap framework, now donated to the 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 for coding in JavaScript.
The final problem is how we build the platform. For example, iOS requires a Mac, Windows Phone requires a Windows PC, and the others come with a price tag. Today, mobile development with options and new trends is here to stay and web developers are now all over the platform looking for a ticket on the mobile bandwagon.
