Cross Platform Mobile Application Development

As mobile OSes especially iPhone and Android, the pressing question remains: How do you choose which mobile devices to develop for and which devices to omit from your roadmap?

Cross-OS platforms for mobile development on the whole are not yet a completely perfect, have your cake and eat it too solution, but many of them offer an excellent alternative to ignoring one mobile OS in favor of another or, perhaps worse, burning serious resources to develop for two or three platforms at once.

 

At Pixel Solutions we offer to choose a platform, which reaches to more people or devices hence our developer, develop applications in one common language and deploy them to all the popular platforms at once. At Pixel Solutions we have following cross-platform development tools that we have expert team who delivers high performance cross platform mobile application development.

 

PhoneGap

PhoneGap is an open-source mobile development framework developed by Nitobi Software.It enables softwareprogrammers to build applications for mobile devices using JavaScript, HTML5 and CSS3, instead of often less-known languages such as Objective-C. The resulting applications are hybrid, meaning that they are neither truly native nor purely web based..PhoneGap is an open source implementation of open standards. That means developers and companies can use PhoneGap for mobile applications that are free, commercial, open source, or any combination of these.

 

The mobile framework allows web developers to natively target all smartphone with a single codebase (JavaScript, HTML and CSS) by enabling a Foreign Function Interface (FFI) to an embeddedWebView or Webkit on the device.

 

PhoneGap currently supports development for the operating systems Apple iOS, Google Android, HP webOS, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Nokia Symbian OS[14] and RIM BlackBerry. Support for recent versions, such as BlackBerry 5 and 6 and Windows Phone.

Why PhoneGap

Mobile development is a mess. Building applications for each device--iPhone, Android, Windows Mobile and more--requires different frameworks and languages. One day, the big players in mobile may decide to work together and unify third-party app development processes. Until then, PhoneGap will use standards-based web technologies to bridge web applications and mobile devices. Plus, because PhoneGap apps are standards compliant, they’re future-proofed to work with browsers as they evolve.

 

PhoneGap is an open source implementation of open standards. That means developers and companies can use PhoneGap for mobile applications that are free, commercial, open source, or any combination of these.

 

Since winning the Web 2.0 Expo LaunchPad competition in April 2009, PhoneGap has been widely recognized as a game-changer for mobile app development. The code has been downloaded more than 600,000 times and thousands of apps built using PhoneGap are available in mobile app stores and directories

 

The Following native application feature supported by Phonegap

• ACCELEROMETER
• CAMERA
• COMPASS
• CONTACTS
• FILE IO
• GEOLOCATION
• MEDIA
• NETWORK
• NOTIFICATION (ALERT)
• NOTIFICATION (SOUND)
• NOTIFICATION (VIBRATION)
• LOCAL STORAGE

 

Titanium Appplication Development

Titanium is a free and open source application development platform, Titanium lets you create native mobile, tablet and desktop application experiences using existing web skills like Javascript, HTML, CSS, Python, Ruby, and PHP.

 

Today you need to be in three places at once: Online, On-phone, and On-desktop. Titanium empowers you to create immersive, full-featured applications that go beyond browser boundaries and stick with your audience whenever and wherever they are.

 

Titanium applications are divided into 4 main parts

• The html/css/javascript code that makes up the core application logic and UI
• The APIs that access native device/desktop functionality, analytics or other modular functionality
• The language-OS bridge that compiles web code into native application code
• The run-time shell that packages the application for cross-platform distribution.

Once built, Titanium-based applications can be tested, packaged, and distributed through the Appcelerator Network’s cloud services. The Titanium platform is open source, so you may also access the source code to the complete application at any time for your own use.

 

Sencha Touch

Sencha Touch allows you to develop mobile web apps that look and feel native on iPhone, Android, and BlackBerry touch devices.

 

Sencha Touch is the framework built specifically to leverage HTML5, CSS3, and Javascript for the highest level of power, flexibility, and optimization. We make specific use of HTML5 to deliver components like audio and video, as well as a localStorage proxy for saving data offline. We have made extensive use of CSS3 in our stylesheets to provide the most robust styling layer possible.

 

Sencha Touch is the perfect solution for mobile enterprise application development. Created with strict coding standards and a familiar, classical inheritance model,

 

JQuery Mobile

Jqueyr mobile is a unified, HTML5-based user interface system for all popular mobile device platforms, built on the rock-solid jQuery and jQuery UI foundation. Its lightweight code is built with progressive enhancement, and has a flexible, easily themeable design.

 

jQuery mobile framework takes the "write less, do more" mantra to the next level: Instead of writing unique apps for each mobile device or OS, the jQuery mobile framework will allow you to design a single highly branded and customized web application that will work on all popular smartphone and tablet platforms.Query Mobile has broad support for the vast majority of all modern desktop, smartphone, tablet, and e-reader platforms.

 

jQuery Mobile Supported Platforms

• iPhone
• Android
• BlackBerry
• Bada
• Windows Phone
• Web Palm OS
• Symbian
• Meego