Tools For Quick & Efficient Mobile Application Development In 2015

Featured article by Tom Hardy, mobile app developer at Sparx IT Solutions

We know how cumbersome it can be to develop fast, efficient and multiple platform compatible mobile applications. Every platform is unique & exhibits distinct features, behavior and capabilities. Cross-platform compatible apps are need of the hour. A developer needs to find the solutions to create the best applications that work well with most of the mobile devices without using up all the resources on creating apps for just a few platforms at a time. Fortunately, a wide variety of mobile application development tools are available in the online market that can be used to achieve your goals and objectives.

Major Challenges Associated With Mobile App Development

Responsive mobile app development involves writing a common code for applications that will be used on various operating systems. Popular mobile platforms iOS and Android differ in their structure. Therefore, they cause trouble for the developers who try to make applications that work across their products. Apple and Google encourage contradicting ways of coding, making it difficult for the programmers to create a single codebase, which is effective on both the operating systems. This means that coders need to copy code & tweak it to work with both the platforms.

We have listed a few essential tools, libraries and frameworks to enable you to start with confidence. The best thing is that the mobile internet is not that different from the usual web tools frameworks and libraries, but the testing requirements and performance characteristics are entirely different.

Incredible Tools For Developing Effective Mobile Applications

PhoneGap: It is an award-winning FOS environment, which won the huge admiration at Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco’s Launch Pad Event 2009. This outstanding development platform enables developers to build apps for BlackBerry, iTouch, iPad, Symbian, Palm and Android devices. It provides developers easy access to hardware components such as camera, GPS/location, accelerometer and more. PhoneGap uses distributed systems technology as well as standard programming languages like CSS3, HTML and JavaScript. Moreover, it provides an Adobe AIR app & online training courses that enable developers to have access to native API’s and create mobile applications.

Xamarin: This C# based web development platform supports cross-platform mobile application development for both iOS and Android devices. Xamarin provides developers the ability to write codes in C# & create applications using data framework and APIs on distinct platforms. It emphasizes performance and native user interface tools as imperative for developing applications.

RhoMobile: It is a preferred choice of seasoned developers as it offers various options like RhoSync and RhoHub. RhoMobile uses programming languages such as HTML5, JavaScript and CSS3 to allow development of multiple platform compatible applications. It is different from other mobile application development tools in terms of widgets, styling libraries & effects that boost functionality and appearance of apps. Its framework is designed in such a way that you need to code once only. Native apps can work with the available hardware. Therefore, your work can be done with utmost ease, speed & accuracy.

Appcelerator: It offers Titanium Development Platform, which has a formidable following in social site, Twitter and helps create native mobile, desktop and tablet applications through coding languages like Ruby, PHP, HTML, Python and JavaScript. The best thing about this platform is that it provides users easy access to more than 300 APIs & location information. As one of the intuitive and efficient mobile app development software, Appcelerator renders Java-based coding capabilities with cloud-based back-end services.

Sencha: It generates code, which runs in the webkit browser and can be further completed with the help of PhoneGap. Sencha features drag & drop insertion for Microsoft, iPhone, BlackBerry and Kindle screens. It also deals with the issues related to layout and offers various other tools for developing multiple platform compatible applications like Sencha Animator, which enable developers to view an app with ease.

Conclusion

A plethora of mobile app development tools are available online that can help you in building responsive and cross-platform compatible mobile applications. We have provided you the list of five essential software that will surely make your app development task a lot easier.

Author-bio

Being a determined mobile app developer at Sparx IT Solutions, Tom Hardy has passionate love for mobile apps, which encourages him to find the best ways of creating effective applications for various mobile devices. He likes to share his success and tips with the people through his b