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A mobile development framework is a software framework that is designed to support mobile app development. It is a software library that provides a fundamental structure to support the development of applications for a specific environment.
Frameworks can be in three categories: native frameworks for platform-specific development, mobile web app frameworks, and hybrid apps, which combine the features of both native and mobile web app frameworks.
Current frameworks
edit| Framework | License | Framework target | Development languages | Target platform | 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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| Codename One | GPL | Native and web application | Java, Kotlin | Android, iOS | Desktop, Web | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | 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 | |||
| Flutter | BSD-3-Clause | Native, embedded applications | Dart | Android, iOS, Fuchsia | Windows, macOS, Linux | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Kivy | MIT | Embedded and enterprise applications | Python | iOS, Android | 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 |
| Pega AMP | Commercial | Hybrid, native and enterprise applications | HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, Java, Native code or a combination of both | iOS, Android | - | 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 | |
| RhoMobile Suite | MIT | Embedded applications | JavaScript, Ruby | iOS, Android | Windows Phone, Windows 10, Windows CE/Mobile | ? | 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 |
| React Native | MIT | Native applications | Javascript with ES6 syntax support | Android, iOS | Web, Windows, Linux, macOS | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes, via Linking API | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ionic | MIT | Hybrid applications | JavaScript | Android, iOS | Windows, Web | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Xamarin | MIT | Native applications | C# | iOS, Android | tvOS, watchOS, macOS, and Windows | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Titanium SDK | Apache | Native applications | JavaScript | Android, iOS | macOS | 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 | ||||||||
| Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile[1] | Kotlin | Android, iOS |
Discontinued and obsolete framework
edit- iUI - last stable release in 2009
- Crosswalk Project - last updated in 2017
- IPFaces mobile framework - last updated in 2013
- MoSync - discontinued, last updated in 2013
- Enyo - last updated in 2016
- NEXT - last updated in 2016
- Sencha Touch - final release in 2015
- NSB/AppStudio - last updated in 2021
See also
edit- Flutter (software) - open-source software development kit created by Google, used to develop applications for Android, iOS, Windows, Mac, Linux, and the web.
- Cross-platform software
- Comparison of JavaScript-based web frameworks for mobile web sites
References
edit- ^ "Kotlin Multiplatform for Cross-Platform Mobile Development". Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile. Retrieved 2022-10-18.