16 Mobile Frameworks For Rapid Development

Written by Kevin Liew on 10 Jul 2012
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Introduction

Mobile development is one of the hottest career nowadays. All businesses are moving toward mobile by bringing their service or website playing nicely in mobile platforms. At the moment, there are two common ways to make it happens, one is do it natively with Objective-C/Java and the latter - using web technologies, HTML, CSS and Javascript.

By using the latter, most web developers will not have to pick up a completely new language, and able to start develop Mobile App with what they already good at. Luckily, famous mobile platforms such as Android and iOS both support pretty advanced CSS and have a full on Javascript engine as well which made all the fancy effects and transition possible. Well, definitely not as good as native but it's good enough. This time, we have 16 Mobile frameworks that able to help you create mobile web app quickly with their built-in UI and navigation system.

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cyrus 12 years ago
Cool list. I think here are the best and the most usefully frames. (I prefer sencha, but want to try others from this list :) )
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naren.mca36 12 years ago
All are awesome mobile frameworks !!
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Xrxdude 12 years ago
Kendo can be added. But commercial.
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Smith 12 years ago
Cool list of mobile frameworks. Thanks for posting.
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jiggy1com 11 years ago
I've been messing w/ KendoUI, too! Pretty sick
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