In previous part 1, I have thoroughly discussed about the two major cross-platform tools for the mobile developers to create robust apps with least investment of time, resources, and hard-earned money of their patrons. Now, in this episode I would like to bet on the browser based apps or can term web apps for mobiles, which are now giving excellent native like user experiences due to enhanced HTML5, CSS3, and advance JavaScript.
Visual App Builder– Sencha Architect
Sencha Architect comes with ready-to-go features and interface based on HTML5 so any web developer familiar with HTML5, CSS3, and advance JavaScript can go to coding and create some outstanding outcomes for multiple platforms like iPhone, Kindle Fire, BlackBerry, Microsoft Windows mobile apps programming easily.
This framework is capable to manage the layouts, widget managements, and event juggling easily because it has options to select themes, UI components, and user extension to get custom results with desired features and functionality.
Technically code is runs in WebKit supported browsers, means almost all modern mobile browsers. You can turn code into the native like app by wrapping them with PhoneGap or Corodova like tools for awesome native like user experiences.
Mine of Mobile Development Tools—AppGvyer
This company has made a number of useful tools for the mobile developer community in contemporary ways where it supports the PhoneGap with an awesome extension call Steroid. Same the way Prototyper is another product that create tools to glue a few pages together into the flexible prototypes where you can test your ideas before jumping into the development ship.
Steroid has Hybrid UI so you can get excellent native like user experiences without much wetting your legs in CSS and JavaScript. Instead you can banking on HTML5 through simple JavaScript API. The most alluring offering is its easy sharing using a QR code so you can go at any extent to test your product.
Juggle the Data using Firebase
Today our all mobile apps have either fatty database or critical data at security point of views. Therefore, safely storing and sharing all the data or information needs especial tools and Firebase is providing exclusively. Mobile application developer has to setup the project and Firebase will manage the rest by setting up a key-value store.
This tool will give you a powerful API to store and sync your data in real-time, not only this, but also offer offline support and will update your data while your devices restore the connectivity. Its full-featured libraries support all major web and mobile platforms as well as offer seamless binding for most popular frameworks for mobile development including cross-platforms and native ones using its REST API.
Besides these, collaboration with Firebase is simpler as its particularly tuned to push changes made by all team members working on the app. Thus, you have easy backend development and let you focus on frontend more.
Apart from the above described cross-platform and supporting extension tools, there are some more modern popular mobile app development aides and that we will discuss in our final part. Thanks for reading in advance.