Multiple phone web-based application framework
A multiple phone web-based application framework is a software framework that is designed to support the development of phone applications that are written as embedded dynamic websites and may leverage native phone capabilities, like geo data or contact lists. For more general frameworks see List of rich internet application frameworks.
Current frameworks
| Framework | License | Free? | Framework target | Development languages | iOS support | Android support | Windows Phone support | BlackBerry support | Symbian support | Palm WebOS support | WAC support | Other device support | Without recompiling development | Enterprise data synchronization | Multi-threaded applications | File uploading | Image library browsing | In application email | Application distribution support | Distribution analytics | Self-contained, no web required | Web services | Mobile APIs support | Able to access the web for data | Geolocation support | Vibration support | Accelerometer support | Sound (play) support | Sound (record) support | Camera support | Zeroconf (Bonjour) support | XMPP support | File system IO support | Gesture / Multi-touch support | Device Motion Event (accelerometer) support | Device orientation event (accelerometer) support | Native date/time picker support | SMS support | Telephone support | Maps support | Orientation change support | Contact support | SQLite support | Native language application development support | Graph library support |
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| Apache Cordova cordova | Apache Public License v2 | Yes | Embedded applications | HTML, JavaScript and CSS | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Web, Bada and various desktop OS | No | No | No | Yes | No | ? | No | No | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes, BlackBerry requires OS 4.7 | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes, not possible on BlackBerry | No | ? |
| AppFurnace appfurnace | Commercial | No[1] | Embedded applications | JavaScript | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | ? | No | No | Yes | No | Yes[2] | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | ? | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | ? | |
| AppGyver Steroids appgyver | Commercial | Yes | Hybrid applications | HTML, JavaScript and CSS | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | ? | Yes | No | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | ? | |
| Application Craft applicationcraft | Commercial | No[3] | Web, native and enterprise applications | JavaScript, HTML and CSS | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Tablets, desktop and web environments | ? | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes[4] | Yes | No | Yes, Mobile | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes, not possible on BlackBerry | No | Yes |
| Appspresso github | MIT | Yes | Embedded applications | HTML, JavaScript and CSS | Yes | Yes | No (On roadmap) | No | No | No | Yes | Yes[5] | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No (On roadmap) | No (On roadmap) | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No (On roadmap) | Yes | ? | |
| Canappi www | Unknown | Yes | Enterprise applications | Objective-C, Java, PHP, SQL, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Silverlight | Yes | Beta | No (On roadmap) | No | Yes | No | No | Tablets | ? | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes (PHP/MySQL - XML/JSON - HTTP/SOAP) | Yes (Simple Connector Architecture, Facebook, Twitter, RSS, Twilio, Zillow, ...) | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Monaca monaca | Commercial | Yes | Hybrid applications | HTML5 and JavaScript | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | Chrome Apps | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Codename One www | GPL+CPE | Yes[6] | Java | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Windows, Linux & macOS | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes (external) | Yes (external) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Crosswalk Project crosswalk-project | BSD License | Yes | Web and Hybrid applications | HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS | Partial | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | Tizen, Linux, and Windows 10 desktop, | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | N/A | No | No | Yes | ? | Crosswalk WebAPI, Device API, and Embedded API | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes |
| Enyo enyojs | Apache License v2.0 | Yes | Web applications | HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | Tablet, desktop and web environments, Tizen, Firefox OS | Yes, for web apps | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||
| IBM WorkLight www | Commercial | No | Embedded and enterprise applications | JavaScript, HTML and CSS, Native code or a combination of both | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | For web apps | For web apps | No | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| iPFaces www | Commercial | Yes | Enterprise applications | PHP, ASP.NET, Java | Yes | Yes | No (On roadmap) | Beta version | ? | ? | No | Java ME beta version, general web browser through XSLT | ? | No (On roadmap) | ? | ? | ? | ? | AppStore, Cloud Services | AppStore, Cloud Services | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | No (On roadmap) | Yes | ? | In beta | No | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | Sending | Yes | Beta | Yes | ? | No (On roadmap) | No | ? |
| iUI www | MIT | Yes | Web applications | JavaScript, HTML and CSS | Yes | Yes | Yes | Limited models | ? | Yes | No | Tablets, desktop and web environments | ? | No | No | ? | ? | ? | No | No | No | ? | ? | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | No | ? |
| Kendo UI kendoui | Commercial | No | Web and mobile applications | HTML, JavaScript and CSS | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | ? | No | MeeGo | ? | No | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | No | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | ? |
| Shield UI www | Commercial | No | Web and mobile applications | HTML, JavaScript and CSS | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | ? | No | MeeGo | ? | No | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | No | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | ? |
| Jembe www | Commercial | No | Embedded and enterprise applications | HTML, JavaScript and CSS | Yes | Yes | No (On roadmap) | No (On roadmap) | No | No | No | ? | No | No | Yes | No (On roadmap) | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | ? | |
| Jmango360 www | Commercial | No | No | ? | Yes | Yes, via Cordova | Yes | Yes (iOS) | Yes (iOS) | ? | No | Yes | Through Cordova | Yes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Kivy kivy | MIT | Yes | Embedded and enterprise applications | Python | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | Linux, macOS & Windows | No | ? | Partial (Python based.) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | ? | Yes (In progress) | Yes | No (On roadmap) | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No |
| mobl www | MIT | Yes | mobl | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Webkit/Firefox desktop browsers | ? | Yes | Yes(JSON) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes, BlackBerry requires OS 4.7 | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes, not possible on BlackBerry | No | ? | ||||||||||||
| MoSync www | GPL v2 (+ commercial edition) | Yes | Hybrid, native and enterprise applications | C/C++, JavaScript, HTML and CSS | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | No | Java ME, Moblin, Windows Mobile | ? | No (On roadmap) | ? | Yes | No (On roadmap) | ? | No (On roadmap) | No (On roadmap) | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | Cell ID, GPS, DRM | No (On roadmap) | No (On roadmap) | Yes | No (On roadmap) | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No Uses onboard storage and back-end databases via service layer | Yes | Yes | |
| NEXT[7] nextinterfaces | Apache License v2.0 | Yes | Web applications | GWT, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, Java | Yes | Yes | No (On roadmap) | Yes | No | Yes | No | Bada, BlackBerry PlayBook, MeeGo | ? | Yes, Offline Support | Yes (JSONP, JSON, GWT RPC) | No (On roadmap) | Yes | Yes | Yes | No (On roadmap) | Yes | No | No | Yes, via Cordova | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No (On roadmap) | Yes | No | No | |||||||||
| NSB/AppStudio www | Commercial | No | Web applications | BASIC, JavaScript, HTML and CSS | Yes | Yes | Yes, via Cordova | Yes | Yes, via Cordova | Yes | No | Tablets, desktop and web environments | ? | No | Yes | Yes, via Cordova | Yes, via Cordova | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes (Sencha Touch, JQTouch, etc.) | Yes | Yes | Yes, via Cordova | Yes | Yes | Yes, via Cordova | Yes, via Cordova | ? | Yes, via Cordova | Yes, via Cordova | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes, via Cordova | Yes | No | Yes, via HTML5 SVG or Canvas |
| Paradise www | Commercial | No | Embedded applications | HTML, JavaScript and CSS | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | ? | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | ||||||||||||||||||
| Pega AMP www | Commercial | No | Hybrid, native and enterprise applications[8] | HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, Java, Native code or a combination of both | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Tablets | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes, Offline Support | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes, via Cordova | Yes, via Cordova | Yes, via Cordova or HTML5 Audio | Yes, via Cordova | Yes, via Cordova | Yes, via Cordova | Yes, via Cordova | Yes | Yes, via Cordova | Yes, via Cordova | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes, via Cordova | Yes, based on device support | Yes | Compatible with other libraries | |
| QuickConnectFamily www | MIT | Yes | Embedded and enterprise applications | JavaScript, HTML, CSS for mobile and desktop apps. Objective-C, C++, PHP, Java, Erlang for Desktop and Server apps | Yes | Yes | No (On roadmap) | No | No | No | No | Linux & macOS | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes (XML/JSON AJAX) | Yes (Sencha Touch, JQTouch, etc.) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| RhoMobile Suite rhomobile | MIT | Yes[9] | Embedded applications | HTML, JavaScript, Ruby | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Tablets and Windows (Win32) | ? | Yes, via RhoConnect | Yes, via Ruby | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes, via RhoGallery | No | Yes | Yes (REST or SOAP with JSON or XML) | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes, via Rhodes extensions | Yes, via HTML5 SVG or Canvas |
| Sencha Touch www | GPL v3 (+commercial edition) | Yes | Web applications | HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Webkit desktop browsers (Chrome, Safari) | ? | Yes, Offline Support | Yes (JSONP, JSON) | Yes | Yes via Cordova | Yes, via Cordova | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No (On roadmap) | Yes | Through Cordova | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||
| sonarDesign mako | Commercial (+commercial edition) | Yes | Web applications | HTML5, DART, JavaScript | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Webkit desktop browsers (Chrome, Safari, IE) | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No, Offline Support | Template:On roadmap (JSONP, JSON), RESTful) | Yes | Yes | Yes, | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No (On roadmap) | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||||
| Appzillon[10][11][12][13][14] www | Commercial | No | Embedded and Enterprise applications | Java, JavaScript, CSS | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | For web apps | For web apps | No | Tablets, desktops and web environments | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| 2VizCon www | Commercial | No | Hybrid Enterprise applications | JavaScript, HTML5 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | For web apps | For web apps | No | Tablets, desktops, touchscreens and web environments | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
History
With mobile device manufactures each having its own preferred development environment, a growth mobile phone application developments that are World Wide Web capable and a large population of HTML savvy developers, there has arisen web based application frameworks to help developers write applications that can be deployed on multiple devices.
March 6, 2008 - the first iPhone SDK beta is released to a limited number of developers (4,000).
March 12, 2008 - the first versions of the QuickConnectJavaScript, QuickConnectPHP, and QuickConnectErlang frameworks made available to the public. These were focused on easing browser - server communication. QuickConnectJavaScript was the basis from which the first versions of QuickConnect for the iPhone were developed.
April 8, 2008 - iPhone OS 2.0b3 Beta 3 is released to the same set of developers. Lee Barney begins development of QuickConnect for the iPhone as a hybrid application framework. This is the first iPhone SDK release that included the UIWebView component. This component allows applications to display HTML and CSS pages and run JavaScript. No database support was included at this time. QuickConnect for the iPhone development began. It was a port and partial re-write of the earlier QuickConnectJavaScript 1.0 framework that had been made available in March of the same year.
May 23, 2008 - Lee Barney publishes a seminal posting 'UIWebView Example Code' on the tetontech blog describing and providing source code on how to call from JavaScript to Objective-C and from Objective-C back up to JavaScript. This posting has had over 60,000 hits.
May 29, 2008 - iPhone OS 2.0b6 Beta 6 is released. This is the first version of the UIWebView that included SQLite database support.
July 11, 2008 - iPhone OS 2.0 and the first release version of the iPhone SDK released. All developers could now download the SDK if they registered.
August 2008 iPhoneDevCamp in San Francisco - Nitobi begins development of PhoneGap.
November 11, 2008 - A port of QuickConnect made available for Mac desktop and laptop systems.
December 16, 2008 - version 1.0 of QuickConnect for the iPhone released. This included support for embedded Google maps, Geo location, SQLite support both in the browser and with installed databases, an AJAX wrapper, drag-and-drop, phone, email, audio file recording and playing, as well as other features.
January 16, 2009 - version 1.0 beta 1 of QuickConnect for Android released. This release was an eclipse project that could be imported by the user into their workspace.
August 29, 2009 - version 1.5 of QuickConnect for the iPhone released.
November 11, 2009 - version 1.6 beta 6 of the QuickConnect family made available. This included the first support for Palm WebOS. This support was provided by an Xcode template that would build, install, and run the application into the PalmWebOS emulator. An Xcode template for Android 2.0 was also added. This template would build for both the emulator and the Android app store as well as install and run the application on the Android emulator. Templates were now available for the iPhone, Android, and Palm webOS mobile devices.
See also
- Mobile application development, esp. the "Platform development environment" section
- Online JavaScript IDE for hybrid applications
- Android software development
References
- ↑ Free to use, test and demo. But costs money to actually publish an app.
- ↑ Can compose email from a mailto link
- ↑ Free to test 14 days. 14 $US/month (nov 2012).
- ↑ Can compose email from a mailto link
- ↑ on-the-fly
- ↑ Basic version is free
- ↑ http://blog.nowvu.com/2010/08/30/a-lightweight-method-to-check-sencha-touch-browser-compatibility-in-php/
- ↑ http://info.antennasoftware.com/rs/antennasoftware/images/AMPchroma2_Datasheet_Dec2012.pdf
- ↑ RhoElements running in native mode requires licensing .
- ↑ http://finovate.com/2013/11/i-exceed-technology-solutions-presents-appzillon-a-next-generation-mobile-app-development-platform.html
- ↑ http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/launch-of-unified-app-development-suite-appzillontm-by-i-exceed-180352731.html
- ↑ http://news.webindia123.com/news/press_showdetailsPR.asp?id=720&cat=PR%20News%20Wire
- ↑ http://www.indiamart.com/iexceed-technology/
- ↑ http://www.citi.com/latinamerica/en/news/2014/140530a.html
External links
- PropertyCross: Helping you select a cross-platform mobile framework
- Mobile specifications
- Advantages and Disadvantages of Using Cross-Platform Mobile Development