Development of the cross-platform mobile framework for integration with enterprise information systems

In our time, the activity of a large company cannot be imagined without using the effective automation tools of production and management processes. As a rule, corporate information systems are used for improving efficiency of a company´s work. The using of such systems allows automating processes and multiple manipulations with data. However, the user should be on his workplace in the corporate enterprise network. The using of mobile clients allows avoiding this problem. But, such mobile clients are designed for a specific information system mostly. One of the possible solutions of this problem is a cross-platform development environment for mobile clients of corporate information systems. In the first development iteration, Windows Mobile, Google Android and Apple iOS platforms are supported. The proposed environment is a set of software components which include the source code editor, interpreter of a source code to native code, build-automation tools, and tools for visual design and editing of graphical user interface. The text editor has all of the necessary possibilities to work - from the syntax highlighting and line numbering to support IntelliSence technology. Intermediate language M# is proposed to ensure cross-platform client´s work and this language has C-like syntax. The instructions of this language are translated into native language of target platform, and then it is compiled by using of the relevant compiler. The custom visual components library is provided for the creation of a graphical user interface. Many of these components have functions of binding to objects of the enterprise database. In this time, environment works on the Windows desktop platform. But, in the long run, the development environment can be expanded to the UNIX and MacOS desktop platforms.