Top 5 multi-platform mobile app development tools

By siliconindia   |   Thursday, 21 April 2011, 10:48 IST   |    5 Comments
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4. PhoneGap
PhoneGap is a HTML5 app platform that allows developers to create apps for Android, Palm, Symbian, BlackBerry, iPhone, iTouch and iPad devices. allows the developer to work with device hardware features such as accelerometer, GPS/location, camera, sound and much more. It also offers an Adobe AIR app and also online training courses to help the developer access native API's and build mobile apps on its own platform. 5. MoSync
MoSync is another Free Open Source Software (FOSS) multi-platform mobile app development tool that offers the developer multi-platform mobile app dev SDK tool. It also includes Eclipse-based IDE for C/C++ programming. MoSync offers support for several types of OS', including Windows Mobile, Android, Symbian, Moblin and even a mobile Linux distro. Support for the iPhone OS and BlackBerry is also on its way. The list is certainly not exhaustive. Adding to the above five tools, there are some other cross-platform mobile development tools as well that are in huge demand. Some of these skills are - WidgetPad, Whoop, TotalCross and DragonRAD.