5. Company: Conduit

Framework/Tool: The Conduit “dashboard”

This do-it-yourself app builder lowers the bar for app-creation for those who are programmatically challenged and allows for the easy creation of iOS, Android, Windows Phone as well as Web apps using HTML5. All you will have to do is plug any website into the Conduit engine, which will create the app for you, based on your preferences; you can add layers for sharing on social media, content updates, audio from albums, and a lot more. According to ReadWriteMobile, the engine (or the dashboard) mimicked the basic functionality of app builders such as Boilerplate and iBuildApp and added refined features. Using this tool, developers can take content from a myriad of sources, and package it for publication on any platform, be it the mobile Web, Android, Windows Phone, BlackBerry, Bada or iOS.

6. Company: Adobe

Framework/Tool: Edge

Adobe last year announced that it acquired Nitobi (the creator of the popular PhoneGap framework, which bases itself on HTML5) and since then, it has aggressively pursued development for the platform while allowing Flash to slowly fade out.  Adobe’s Edge framework (which is to hit markets soon) allows for the creation of animated content using HTML5, thus allowing developers tha opportunity to build content-rich apps.