Mobile Web Frameworks - Part2

In the last post we talked about list of Mobile Web UI frameworks and in this post I wanted to highlight the list of Mobile Web application frameworks. A mobile web application framework provide services, such as an application packaging model, JavaScript APIs for accessing device features e.g., geo-location, local file system / database, photos, and touch / accelerometer controls. And some of the App framework API's are portable across different mobile platforms e.g., iPhone, Android, RIM

The following are few of the popular mobile Web application frameworks:

Appcelerator Titanium: The Titanium platform enables web developers to leverage their deep knowledge of industry standard tools and technologies to easily and quickly create rich native applications that are connected to the web. Almost every Titanium-created mobile application uses web connectivity, leverages information from a customer datacenter or user base, and mixes in device-centric contextual functionality like geo-location or mobile file system access. The result is a new class of mobile applications unlike those seen in today’s app stores.

NimbleKit: NimbleKit is the fastest way to create applications for iPhone and iPod touch. Developer doesn’t need to know Objective-C or iPhone SDK. By providing its own API on top of Cocoa Touch, NimbleKit allows would-be developers to access core iPhone functionality with Javascript functions. You can build an entire application using an HTML template with embedded Javascript, compile it and run it on your iPhone/iPod touch.

PhoneGap: PhoneGap is an open source development tool for building fast, easy mobile apps with JavaScript.

Rohmobile: Rhodes is an open source framework to rapidly build native apps for all major Smartphone operating systems (iPhone, Windows Mobile, RIM, Symbian and Android). These are true native device applications (NOT mobile web apps) which work with synchronized local data and take advantage of device capabilities such as GPS, PIM contacts and camera.

ZK: ZK is the proven Ajax + Mobile framework available, designed to maximize an enterprise’s operational efficiency and minimize development time and cost.

Mobile Web Frameworks - Part1

In just 1½ year time frame myriad mobile web frameworks are available to the developer’s community to develop applications fast, compatible & extendable. In this posting I am writing the list of popular Mobile UI frameworks and in next post will write the list of Mobile Application frameworks.

A Mobile Web UI framework is used to create mobile web user interfaces and the framework provides Web Widgets, Themes, Events and Animations to the developers.

The following are the list of Mobile Web UI frameworks available to the developer’s  community. And all these are available for free of cost.

iWebKit is a file package designed to help developers to create iPhone and iPod Touch compatible website or webapp. It is easy to use, fast, compatible & extendable.

jQTouch is a jQuery plugin which helps create immersive experiences on the iPhone and iPod Touch.

Magic Framework is a native iPhone UI imitator and HTML5 db interface built in html/css/javascript. It's useful for online websites or on-device Webkit-based applications looking to imitate the native iPhone UI and/or use native storage without having to write native code. Magic Framework will only work with Webkit based browsers.

Safire is an open source framework written in HTML/CSS/JS. It make's building/porting applications to the iPhone ridiculously easy.

WebApp.Net is light weight and provides powerful and easy to use items, based on javascript and cascading style sheets technologies.

WidgetPad , the collaborative development environment for developers to develop fully-interactive, stand-alone, downloadable SmartPhone applications in HTML5, CSS3 and Javascript. WidgetPad  allows developers to develop cross-platform smartphone applications and eliminating the need to learn platform specific API sets. WidgetPad offers project management, source code editing, debugging, publishing, code-sharing, and even versioning - all inside a browser.

I invite you to share here any other popular Mobile Web UI framework you came across

Media Convergence

I would like to share this interesting video here. Actually this is a promotional video for the Economist Media Convergence Forum.

(Video Source: Economist Media Convergence Forum)