Title :
Comparison of cross-platform mobile development tools
Author :
Palmieri, Manuel ; Singh, Inderjeet ; Cicchetti, Antonio
Author_Institution :
Innovation Design & Eng, Malardalen Univ., Vasteras, Sweden
Abstract :
Mobiles are an integral part of daily life. With time, customers are expecting good and very versatile applications in less time. It is a big challenge to develop high performance mobile applications in this competitive market that would meet the expectation of customers. Mobile operating systems vendors are giving their best available resources for making applications in more convenient ways, although the development of new applications for each mobile operating system in short time is fairly a problem. Cross-platform mobile application development tools contribute in solving this problem largely. This paper presents a pragmatic comparison among four very popular cross platform tools, which are Rhodes, PhoneGap, DragonRad and MoSync. One of the main focuses of the comparison is to provide an overview on the availability of application programming interfaces, programming languages, supported mobile operating systems, licences, and integrated development environments. Furthermore, it also presents some critical points such as the factor of extensibility in tools and the effects that they may bring on market share. The comparison is aimed at supporting developers to make the right choice with respect to their needs/constraints.
Keywords :
application program interfaces; mobile computing; operating systems (computers); DragonRad; MoSync; PhoneGap; Rhodes; application programming interfaces; cross-platform mobile development tools; high performance mobile applications; market share; mobile operating systems vendors; Business; Databases; HTML; Mobile communication; Operating systems; Smart phones; cross-platform development tool; mobile application; native api; operating system; smartphone;
Conference_Titel :
Intelligence in Next Generation Networks (ICIN), 2012 16th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Berlin
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1527-2
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1525-8
DOI :
10.1109/ICIN.2012.6376023