1. Synapseindia Reviews CrossPlatform Mobile ApplicationDevelopment

2. So. . . According to the Global Developer Survey 13 conducted byTelerik, over 5000 developers said that they developed appsusing HTML5 in 2012 and 90% of them plan to do so in 2013. Only 15% of developers said they would prefer to use a native-onlyapproach. 3. Why Cross Platform What your app will do? Who its for? Where it will run? Do you maintain different and completely independent appsfor each platform? Design a hybrid app with one code base? Pros and cons? 4. Main Features Support Web Services ranging from JSON, XML, SOAP, HTTPetc. These tools cannot access device specific feature like thebluetooth, NFC and other controls. Source code is typically organized in the MVC formatseparating data tier, application and the interface. Problem with compiling iOS Applications 5. Titanium Developed by Appcelerator Inc. Titanium is free and opensource Apps written in javascript Support to build Android, iOS and Blackberry Apps, trying to extend support forWindows. Interpreter for Android and BlackBerry is MozillaRhino, for iOS JavascriptCore Native experience not quite there Source code organization Device Specific Functionality No built in support for Bluetooth and NFC. Web services SOAP, XML, JSON Code maintenance MBaaS support 6. PhoneGap Developed by Adobe Systems Free and opensource Apps written in HTML5, CSS3 and Javascript Support for Android, iOS, Blackberry, WebOS, WindowsPhone, Symbian and Bada. Apache Cordova is the heart of the backend. Performance limited because of hybrid nature of the app. Source code organization No built in support for Bluetooth and NFC. No Web services support built in. 7. Rhodes Developed by Motorola. Native app like feel. Apps written in Ruby and recently extended for JavaScript Support to build Android, iOS, Blackberry Apps, Windowsphone and Mobile. Source code organization Device Specific Functionality No built in support forBluetooth and NFC. Rich web service support built in. Free but not for commercial users. RhoHub is their MBaaS 8. Sencha Touch Over 50 built-in components. Built-in MVC system Apps written in HML5 and CSS3. Sencha Touch 2.2 is the latest version Faster, Cheaper and highly customizable PC developers can now create iOS applications withoutneeding a Mac. More than 500,000 developers Rich set of documentation 9. jQuery Mobile Built on the rock-solid jQuery and jQuery UI foundation Its lightweight size makes it a speed freak JQuery Mobile 1.3.1 recently launched AJAX-powered navigation system Extensions are easy to make No established architecture Easy to debug Markup-based and is backed by a smart community 10. What is good about CPD? Implement a feature once and share it across platforms Using a webview might be faster than writing a nativeimplementation for simple screens Update content without requiring a full app release by servingyour pages off a server One tool to create, debug, and deploy. Speed increases and cost decreases Multiple security methods arent needed Simple for web developers to use 11. Cons Requires a bridge for their pages to interact with nativechrome and call native APIs Maintain a fork, if new functionality is added Write a little code, run it on iPhone, Android, Windows Mobilesimulator. Several straightforward implementations for a single compleximplementation. Harder problems are inconsistencies in platform conventions. Maybe web technology will one day be as fast as native code 12. What does it all boil down to? 13. Questions