Best Mobile Development Frameworks
Mobile Development Frameworks give developers a generic foundation of functionality that can be modified for mobile application specific software. 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. A company’s IT department will outline requirements and choose a framework based on their platform of choice. Native frameworks allow developers to utilize every functionality that is native to a mobile platform (iOS, Android, Windows, Galaxy). However, native frameworks are platform specific and can only create apps for one mobile platform. Hybrid frameworks lack the ability to utilize all native API functions, but still give developers tools to access a phone’s camera, geolocation, and notification system. Mobile development frameworks are often accessed and altered through a mobile development platforms.
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Best Mobile Development Frameworks At A Glance
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Build native iOS and Android apps with JavaScript
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- Computer Software
- Information Technology and Services
- 57% Small-Business
- 31% Mid-Market
9,943,370 Twitter followers
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Syncfusion® Essential Studio® is a suite of 1,600+ software components and frameworks for developing web, mobile, and desktop applications. Its UI controls are designed to be flexible, optimized for
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- Computer Software
- Information Technology and Services
- 81% Small-Business
- 13% Mid-Market
11,974 Twitter followers
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Bootstrap is a HTML, CSS, and JS framework for developing responsive, mobile first projects on the web.
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- Software Engineer
- Information Technology and Services
- Computer Software
- 62% Small-Business
- 27% Mid-Market
524,534 Twitter followers
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Ionic is the leading mobile app development platform for web developers, powering over 15% of the world’s apps and used by hundreds of Fortune 1000 companies for consumer and internal facing apps. Io
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- Senior Software Engineer
- Information Technology and Services
- Computer Software
- 73% Small-Business
- 18% Mid-Market
117,198 Twitter followers
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Kotlin is a modern, concise, and safe programming language. It's targeting different platforms: Server, Android, Web, and Native platforms. It provides many ways to reuse code between platforms for pr
- Software Engineer
- Android Developer
- Information Technology and Services
- Computer Software
- 52% Small-Business
- 31% Mid-Market
208,415 Twitter followers
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DevExpress engineers feature-complete Presentation Controls, IDE Productivity Tools, Business Application Frameworks, and Reporting / Dashboard Systems for Visual Studio, Delphi, HTML5 or iOS & An
- Computer Software
- Information Technology and Services
- 70% Small-Business
- 16% Mid-Market
8,565 Twitter followers
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Read more about our product here: https://www.qt.io/product Programming should be fast, easy and fun. That’s why we have been focusing on improving software development for the last 25 years, and wit
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- 49% Small-Business
- 30% Mid-Market
21,626 Twitter followers
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Open-source HTML, CSS, and JS mobile app developing software
- Computer Software
- Information Technology and Services
- 84% Small-Business
- 14% Mid-Market
65,765 Twitter followers
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Full Featured HTML Framework For Building iOS & Android Apps
- Computer Software
- Information Technology and Services
- 83% Small-Business
- 9% Mid-Market
3,061 Twitter followers
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Felgo provides components, tools and professional services for developing apps on Mobile, Desktop and Embedded platforms. The Felgo framework extends Qt with 200+ APIs. Among them is support for 3rd
- Computer Software
- 86% Small-Business
- 5% Enterprise
2,369 Twitter followers
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Codebots is a cloud-based platform that uses bots that code to help you digitally transform businesses from start-ups to large scale enterprise, for the age of continuous modernisation.
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- 47% Small-Business
- 42% Mid-Market
6 Twitter followers
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Open source HTML5 hybrid app framework for PhoneGap & Cordova
- 75% Small-Business
- 17% Enterprise
762 Twitter followers
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Webix offers a complete ecosystem of tools tailored for enterprise-grade applications. At its core is the Webix DataTable—a blazing-fast grid for handling massive datasets with features like live upda
- 71% Small-Business
- 24% Mid-Market
306 Twitter followers
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Flex is a powerful, open source application framework that allows you to easily build mobile applications for iOS, Android, and BlackBerry Tablet OS devices, as well as traditional applications for br
- 55% Small-Business
- 36% Enterprise
65,765 Twitter followers
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NativeScript allows you to create native iOS and Android apps, with one codebase, using the web skills you already have (JavaScript and CSS) and the libraries you already love.
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- 71% Small-Business
- 24% Mid-Market
