Bangalore: Oracle announced a newly developed Application Development Framework (ADF) Mobile platform which allows developers to create mobile applications for Apple and Android devices.

Oracle had been boosting their application developers for some time, to create applications primarily for mobile operating systems like Apple iOS and Android. One of the main advantages of this platform is that a developer can write an application once and have it run with no modification on either the Apple iOS or Android.

"You don't have to learn different languages to deploy on different platforms," said Bill Pataky, Oracle vice president of product management. "We abstracted away the differences of the devices and paneled them in the framework."

Pataky said that for a part time developer, the ADF platform won’t be compatible. The mobile platform is mainly to help developers extend their ADF and non-ADF enterprise java applications to mobile services.

"Any Web application, including a website, can be integrated into the mobile application," said Pataky.

ADF Mobile provides the tools to build what Oracle calls ‘hybrid development architecture’, one that combines open Web technologies such as HTML5 and JavaScript, and Java enterprise tools. Each application created in ADF Mobile will be embedded with a lightweight Java Virtual Machine (JVM) to run the Java code, which generates content that is passed to a Web view or to an HTML page.

Oracle still has to announce the schedules for upgrade availability across the ADF Mobile platform, but the company revealed that their future editions will carry additional support for mobile operating systems, such as the BlackBerry and the Windows Phone.