Top 8 SDK Tools for Cross-Platform Mobile App Development

It's a dream to create your own app that will be used by mobile users on different multi-platforms and people will know you as a front-end mobile app developer, you will be featured on big brands on internet and so so. Do you know how you can make you dream comes true? Yes! you have to have the qualities that a mobile app developer should have. You have to learn programming languages and of course advanced codes like HTML5, JavaScript, PHP, Ruby, CSS3, Python, C/C++ and more specifically on the basis of your app functions, design and productivity you like to create. Fortunately there are tons of tools available on internet which can help you to make your task more faster and easy. There are huge companies who provide mobile app development services free or paid(most renowned companies ask you for pricing) but they sure offer free trials which you can take in chance to avail and build your first mobile app for free.

Top 8 Tools for Cross-Platform Mobile App Development

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There are a few best companies I have found who provide mobile app development services and some of them are entirely free. Let's have a quick check out.

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1. Xamarin

Xamarin is a multi-device mobile app developement tool which allows C# codes to write up your app and sharing the same code on iOS, Android, Windows, Mac etc. platforms. Reasons behind the first priority of developers to choose Xamarin are awlays they're updated with the latest APIs from Apple and Google, including more than 20,000 NuGet .NET libraries in addition with Xamarin components.

Xamarin provides you iOS and Android designers to create beautiful native user interface. When you're end up with a complete app you may want to find out bugs before your users do by checking it on over 1,000 devices from around the world. The real time monitoring detects you up the crashing and exceptions to improve you apps.

2. Codiqa

Codiqa provides a powerful drag-and-drop builder for creating cross-platform HTML5 mobile apps and websites. With codiqa's simpler method you just need three steps to create an app Build, Code adn Deploy. In building phase you have vast library to choose components. Import themes from ThemeRoller, or you can customize yours. In coding phase import, edit and export HTML/CSS/JS in a cloud-based visual editor while you can watch a live preview of every change you make. In deploaying phase codiqa lets you output real, usable code. Push it live or make it native, no absolute positioned boxes, no black-box code.

Eventhough if you face trouble you will get instant help from any of the devoted team members who are expertise designers and developers.

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3. RhoMobile

RhoMobile is a mobile app development tool which is an open-source framework operating with Ruby(programming language). Programmers are allowed to develope native apps with a range of varies OS and smartphones. The OSs are for Android, Windows Mobile, Symbian, iPhone and RIM which are all covered in it.

The framework used in RhoMobile is solely puposed creating productive and high quality mobile apps. Write applications once, and the open source, web skills platform takes care of the rest - publishing them on multiple popular operating systems

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4. Telerik

A complete mobile app development solution by a progressive company Telerik which helps customers building amazing experiences with apps which featured on NASA, Dell, Microsoft, Sony, IBM, Intel and more big brands of the world. Telerik is an Open and Modular Architecture which is helped with unified development stack for building mobile apps using only JavaScript. It works with cross-devices with any screen such as Web, Hybrid, and Native apps.

It provides Application Development Tools (ADT) for building, testing and productivity of apps. Integrated with standard and custom connectors, Mobile backend, analytics and feedback etc. are the motto services of this platform. Providing you 30 days free trial period of working anyway you can upgrade Pro for different subscription basis.

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5. PhoneGap

PhoneGap is a free and open source framework which allows you to create mobile apps using standardized web APIs for platforms you care about. It helps you to create apps using web technologies you know and love: HTML, CSS and JavaScript. The PhoneGap developer app is an excellent platform where you can integrate cross channel marketing, manage mobile application, get enterprise support & training.

Develope you app locally then see changes on your mobile device with PhoneGap's cross-platform app. With PhoneGap's handy tools you're ready to build app for iOS, Android, Windows Mobile, Blackberry, Bada, webOS etc. platforms.

Learn more at PhoneGap

6. Appery

Appery is a cloud based platform providing you public and private cloud options. Appery comes with handy mobile app builders and tools to create productive apps for iOS, Adroid, Windows Mobile with the power of HTML5 and JavaScript. You can easily connect to 3rd-party REST APIs, integrate with backend services of database, push, server code and secure your enterprise integration with Exadel RESTXpress.

It offers you a free trial plan although you can upgrade your plan anytime. Learn more from Appery

7. Appcelerator

Appcelerator is an enterprise of Titanium Developers which helps to create amazing, cloud-connected native apps using HTML, PHP, JavaScript, Ruby and Python languages. It's filled with numerious resources and tools to create one app to one hundred so fast. It takes 6 steps to create a mobile app with appcelerator, easy to scale app development, connect, test and measure every native app in your portfolio, and meet the leaders of the mobile world.

Appcelerator currently holds over 6M developers, countless running devices and platform API calls.

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8. MoSync

MoSync is a free mobile app development toolkit which is an open source framework and easy to use while building cross-platform mobile apps. To create a mobile app with this tool you have to be known HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, C/C++ well since the tool is developed working under these languages. You can even use Native UI while creating app.

It's yet a useful SDK for mobile OS like Windows Mobile, Android, Symbian, Moblin and even a mobile Linux distro. Learn more from MoSync

Conclusion

These are all the best mobile app development tools which you can use to create your dream apps for iOS, Android, Windows Mobile, BlackBerry etc. platforms. Remember these tools work on specific programming languages like HTML, JavaScript, PHP, Pyhon, Ruby and many more so you have to have enough knowledge about these codes also on CSS, CSS3 because they will help you to design your apps.

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