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Top 5 multi-platform mobile app development tools
By siliconindia
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Thursday, 21 April 2011, 10:49 IST |
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Bangalore: As per a new study by research firm Gartner, mobile applications downloaded from online stores will be a $58 billion worldwide business by 2014. Driven by the popularity of the iPhone and Android operating system, the demand for skilled app developers is reaching the highest point ever. The days are gone when organizations used to choose either iPhone or android or others platforms and ignore the rest. Today, it's becoming evident that you got to have your app ready for cross platforms. Here comes the significance of multi-platform app development tools. Each platform is unique and exhibits different features, capabilities and behaviour. Here is a list of the top 5 development tools for cross-formatting mobile applications.
1. RhoMobile
RhoMobile offers Rhodes, which is an open-source framework based on Ruby. This permits the developer to create native apps, spanning over a stunning range of OS' and smartphones. The OS' include Android, Windows Mobile, Symbian, iPhone and RIM. The developer just need to code once, which can be used to build apps for most of the major smartphones. Apart from Rhodes, RhoMobile also offers developers RhoHub, which is a hosted development environment, and RhoSync, which can be employed as a standalone server to keep all the app data current on the users' handhelds.
