1. Cross Platform MobileApplication DevelopmentSynapse India Reviews

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. Platforms developers are lookingforward to8%13%36%47%66%0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 4. Development DifficultyBlackberry and iOS are the most difficult platforms todevelop for Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 ranked asthe easiest with Android falling in the middle. 5. Types of Apps being built usingHTML5The most important modern web technologies right nowinclude forms and validation, databases and flexible layouts(grids, flexbox, etc.) 6. Usage Apples iOS is the leading mobile OS in 30 countries. Canada-83.7%, United States at 35.2%. Android accounts for more than 50% of the mobile web trafficwith South Korea at 78.3% and United States at 23.3%. Blackberry is the leading mobile OS in four countries, DominicanRepublic, 57.1% and United States, 32.0% Symbian is the leading mobile OS in more than 100 countries,Nokias Symbian-based phones are widely used in developingnations. However, it has almost no foothold in the US market. 7. 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? 8. Main Features Most of them use web based languages HTML5, javascript Performance solely depends on the language being used. Provide Backend as a Service (MBaaS) which includes cloudstorage, social networking and push notifications. 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 9. 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 10. PhoneGap Developed by Adobe Systems Free and opensource Apps written in HTML5, CSS3 and Javascript Support for Android, iOS, Blackberry, WebOS, Windows Phone,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. Cloud Compiler 11. Rhodes Developed by Motorola. Native app like feel. Apps written in Ruby and recently extended for JavaScript Support to build Android, iOS, Blackberry Apps, Windows phone andMobile. Source code organization Device Specific Functionality No built in support for Bluetooth andNFC. Rich web service support built in. Free but not for commercial users. RhoHub is their MBaaS 12. Corona Developed by Corona Labs. Apps written in Lua. Free until app isnt published. Support to build Android, iOS, NOOK and Kindle Fire Applications. Application is compiled using Lua libraries mashed with OpenGL andOpenAL. Native controls using underlying library Device Specific Functionality No built in support for Bluetooth andNFC. Web services HTTP,HTTPS,SOAP, JSON Cloud service is called Corona Cloud. Targeted for game developers. 13. Marmalade Developed by Ideaworks3d. Upfront licensing. Apps written in C++ Support to build iOS, Android, BlackBerry PlayBook OS, and bada. Binary combined with Segundo Embedded Execution Environment(S3E) All device specific functionality except Bluetooth and NFC. Web services SOAP, XML, JSON Marmalade Juice plan to port Objective C source code intoMarmalade. 14. MonoCross Part of the Mono Project Built on the .NET framework. C# is used to build apps. Support to build Android and iOS. Specific platform tools Xamarin Mono and Xamarin MonoTouch. Interpreter for Android and BlackBerry is MozillaRhino, for iOSJavascriptCore Native experience not quite there Source code organization Device Specific Functionality No built in support for Bluetooth andNFC. Windows Communication Foundation Bing Maps API 15. 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 16. 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 17. 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 18. Complexity 19. 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 20. What does it all boil down to? 21. Questions