Tools For Multi-Platform Mobile App Development

If you are thinking in terms of developing mobile apps, you might just as well do it in terms of multi-platform apps since these are the craze now. As for help, there are quite a few multi-platform developer tools available in the market with which you can easily achieve success. However, here are 5 outstanding for cross-formatting mobile applications.

• RhoMobile offers Rhodes, which is an open-source framework that is based on Ruby. This will help you to create native apps, covering a fabulous range of OS’ and Smartphone’s. Of course, the OS’ encompass Android, Windows Mobile, Symbian, iPhone and RIM. The beauty of RhoMobile is that, the framework supplied by it is such that you only need to code once. In fact, the same code can be used to build apps for almost all Smartphone’s.RhoMobile also proffers RhoHub, a hosted development environment and RhoSync, which can be used as a standalone server to hold the app data current on the user’s Smartphone.
• PhoneGap that had received many kudos at Web 2.0 Expo San Franciso’s 2009 Launch Pad event belongs to FOSS environment that will allow you to create apps for Android, Symbian, Palm, Blackberry, iTouch, iPhone and iPad devices. It uses regular web development languages like HTML and JavaScript. It will also allow you to work with device hardware features such as accelerometer, GPS/location, camera and sound. What’s more, PhoneGap offers an Adobe AIR app as also online training courses to help you access native API’s while creating mobile apps on its own platform.
• Appcelerator is a privately held mobile technology company whose prime products consist of Titanium, an open-source software development kit for cross-platform mobile development, and the Appcelerator Platform, which is an enterprise software suite for mobile app development, testing, deployment and analytics.Titanium, which is an open-source framework will allow you to create mobile apps on platforms that include iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Blackberry OS and Tizen from a solo JavaScript codebase. As of 2003, Titanium had gathered around 500,000 developer registrations  .
• MoSync is a FOSS multi-platform mobile app dev SDK tool that is based on standard web programming. This SDK will offer you integrated compilers, runtimes, libraries, device profiles and a few more useful tools. MoSync also 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 will be coming soon, after the release of MoSync 2.4.
• WidgetPad is a collaborative, open-source environment for development of Smartphonek apps. It uses standard web technologies that comprise JavaScript, HTML5 and CSS3.Included in this platform are source code editing, collaboration, debugging, project management, versioning and distribution. WidgetPad, which is now in private beta, can be used to create apps for the iOS, Android OS and WebOS.
• Whoop may not be classed as a top tool, yet it has a charm that makes it irresistible for most would be developers. No wonder their announcement that clearly states that they are “The only one-stop mobile publishing platform for non-developers” attract greenhorns like bees to a bowl of nectar. Incidentally, the Whoop Creative Studio is basically a WYSIWYG editor that lets you easily drag and drop mobile app elements onto it, to achieve desired effects. What is more, you can even export your app in many formats, depending on the OS, including Windows Mobile, BlackBerry, Android, iPhone and more.