Here are quite a few mobile operating systems and platforms available in the market nowadays. The Android OS has been developed by Google and is the most popular on in the market. It is however followed closely by iOS from Apple. Another strong contender is the Windows OS developed by Microsoft. There are still other mobile operating systems such as Bada, Blackberry and Symbian.
Due to the plethora of mobile platforms available, a mobile app development company faces quite a bit of problem when asked to create an application that can be used on all platforms. However, there are development tools available that allow the creation of mobile apps that can be installed and used in various platforms. These cross platform frameworks allow developers to build a single code for the app which can be easily modified to suit different mobile platforms.
ANGULAR.JS
Angular.js is more commonly known as Angular. It is a framework for developing web based applications and is open-source. It is maintained by not only Google, but also a community of mobile app development companies and individual developers. Angular.js allows developers to combat the various problems that can be faced when a single-page application is being developed. The primary aim of this framework is to simplify the development of the apps as well as make their testing an easier process.
JQUERY MOBILE
The jQuery Mobile is a web framework specifically optimized for touchscreens. It is more akin to a JavaScript library. This framework is developed and maintained continuously by the jQuery Project team. A jQuery Mobile app development company will be able to concentrate more on the creation of a framework that is compatible with the wide range of smartphones and their platforms that are available in the market today.
NODE.JS
Node.js is a runtime environment that is both cross-platform and open source. It is meant for the server-side and it can be used for networking apps. JavaScript is used to write the Node.js applications. The apps can be run with the Node.js runtime available for Linux, Microsoft Windows, OS X and FreeBSD. Node.js provides the mobile app development company with architecture that was event driven. The I/O API is a non-blocking one which allows the optimization of the scalability and the throughput of an application. These technologies are generally used for applications that are real-time.
BACKBONE.JS
Backbone.js happens to be a JavaScript library which has a RESTful JSON interface. It is based on the MVP or model-view-presenter design paradigm for applications. One of the best things about Backbone is that it is lightweight. It depends on a single JavaScript library called Underscore.js. Backbone.js was designed to help mobile application development companies develop web applications that are single-page. It can also be used to keep the various and different parts of the web application in synchronization.
IONIC FRAMEWORK
The Iconic Framework is open source and it is used to develop mobile web applications that are based on HTML5. The Ionic Framework is focused on the front-end of the applications which is the one which the users see. In other words, the Ionic Framework is used for developing and improving the UX or User Experience of the app. The framework concentrates on the user interface and is used for making improvements to the intuitive operation of the app and also to make the usability simpler. The Ionic Framework is most commonly used alongside Angular.js. While Angular.js is used to build the structure of the app, the Ionic Framework is used to improve the look as well as the feel of the app. The latter is also used for improving the performance of the app.
SASS
Sass is actually an acronym that stands for Syntactically Awesome Style sheets. It is, of course, a language used for stylesheets. Sass has been extended with SassScript. This is a simple language meant use for scripting in Sass files. The Sass scripting language has been interpreted into CSS or Cascading Style Sheets. The SassScript is in fact the scripting language.
In order to create applications that can be used on a variety of mobile platforms, it is inessential that those applications are coded and built using cross-platform platforms and scripting languages. The above mentioned tools are all cross platform compatible.
