I wanna develop a game app, which should be platform independent. is spritebuilder a cross platform?
Currently, SpriteBuilder exports project files for Xcode limiting development to iOS. Plans are in the works so that SpriteBuilder can export for Android Studio as well, but as of this writing the current version of SpriteBuilder does not support this capability.
If you are still interested in using SpriteBuilder for iOS, you can use Apportable's free service to help translate your Objective-C code to run natively on Android. This will require additional programming and knowledge of another SDK such as Android Studio.
Unity is another free SDK that you can use to publish cross platform games that are 3D, although you will no longer be building truly native Apps for either iOS or Android.
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I am looking for an Cross-platform mobile app development tool that works on Linux. I have tried cordova and intel xdk but none of them works so okay like they are on windows. What are the the best cross-platform mobile app development tools in 2015?
edit: especially recommendations with easily admob and push notification integration would be so helpful.
First I need to clarify some information:
Cordova, also know as PhoneGap, is a bridge to build Hybrid applications and enable you to run in various platforms such as Android, iOS, WP8, Firefox OS, Tizen and others using Javascript + Html5 + css3.
Intel XDK relies on Cordova. Intel XDK is most an easy way to use cordova since it gives you the IDE and the ability to build your application on the cloud instead on your machine. And I am using it on Linux for almost a year without a problem, may you can tell what kind of problems did you have?
So, for now, my answer is that the best cross platform to build hybrid applications is Cordova and you can use Kendo Ui, JQuery Mobile, Ionic, Etc.
If you are looking for an easy way to use admob and push notifications my advice is that you gonna need to use an paid platform such as Telerik Platform($$$) or Ionic($? Free??). In this field Intel XDK did not helped me, once I had to built these features on my way because the support for them in Intel XDK is only if you are using the Legacy Platform (don't do it!).
It's worth take a look at NativeScript (BETA) which currently(2015-03) promises a cross-platform to build native applications Android, iOS and Windows Phone using a code in JS / Typescript.
http://cordova.apache.org/
https://www.nativescript.org
I have to develop a mobile application that is available on Android and iOS.
I do not have any experience with native development for Android or iOS, so I decided to go with some of the existing platforms like PhoneGap, Titanium or Icenium (these platforms provide me with all necessary requirements).
I saw that Icenium requires an invitation code to go through the documentation.
What I want to ask: Has someone played with Icenium? Any recommendations about this cloud-based platform? What about performance?
I have been working with Icenium and I can say that it is fun so far. It is really just an IDE that allows you to use Cordova (PhoneGap) to build apps. There are two IDEs -- one that is browser based and one that is a Windows desktop app. The native desktop app is more featured and has a better User Experience. There is some poetic justice there, if you are looking for it :)
So far, it is certainly young. Support for things like PhoneGap plugins is non-existent so far. I also can't seem to get the app working on a real device, but these are beta bugs and I expect them to be smoothed out.
Although the cloud-based approach is nice because I don't have to worry about using multiple IDEs, you lose a lot of freedom for how you want to develop. For instance, I like using CoffeeScript and there is no support for building, compiling, creating new CS files, etc. Possibly in the future?
Since it is really just an IDE for developing Cordova (PhoneGap) apps, it isn't a different platform from Cordova. It just makes development a bit more streamlined.
I have to say that from my personal experience , Icenium is slow. They market it as being html5 apps that work like native apps and this is just not the case. You can make it look like a native app and you can develop it with the native ideology as it were, letting the user experience it as if it were native, but its so slow.
Its also really odd how a microsoft technology based company ( that is telerik ) has basically removed itself from the microsoft stack with icenium. I am not saying that is bad , microsoft itself needs to do more to attract developers to its platform. Its just really odd because most of the telerik clients use the mircosoft stack , including , very importantly visual studio. Everyone knows VS they have custom plugins that suit their development style and now we must learn and use a new IDE that is so far , in my opinion not even close to the standards of anything. The one primary advantage is that you can deploy to a device.
Adding Phonegap or any other mobile based framework can be done in anything. It also does not provide support for microsoft devices at all. Which removes completely the whole cross platform environment that it seems this was supposed to be created for.
If you are not developing for microsoft , i guess its fine , but i dont see any other advantage other then it can deploy to the device for testing. If you have clients that work on the MS stack .. i would not recommend this at all. Just fire up VS and develop as you have before and just include those libraries in your file system.
We have to develop a chat client for mobile. The devices should be for the following:
Android
iPhone
Blackberry
Symbian
Windows mobile
Windows CE
Palm
Which technology we should use for the multiple OS computability. We like the most of code common.
This chat client also support the video and audio chat.
Android and BlackBerry: Java
Symbian and Win Mo: C++
iPhone and Palm: Objective C and C
It is possible from to write the apps so that some common functionality can be reused, but it needs careful design. But you are a bit out of luck on this.
I would recommend starting with Java and Objective C implementations as this will get you Android, BlackBerry and iPhone, which have a lot more traction in market than other platforms.
Look at cross platform frameworks like PhoneGap - that way you can keep the UI and as much code as you care to port to JavaScript common, then do the remaining in native code.
Currently React Native framework gains popularity as a solution for implementing JavaScript based apps for Android and iOS platforms. Here is a guide for React Native.
JavaScript SDK can be also used for preparing desktop app for Windows via Electron for example.
Since you need to cover a lot of platforms, you might need also a backend solution providing an API option to cover all your needs.
Try ConnectyCube. It has React Native support in its JS SDK and provides API to cover the rest of cases. So, it's flexible enough and you can use it for developing apps for all your platforms.
What SDKs/Tools/Toolkits/IDEs should I download to start programming mobile applications for iPhone, Symbian and BlackBerry from within Windows platform?
And from where can I download them?
For the iPhone platform, your current option is to become an iPhone developer, use the iPhone SDK and develop on a Mac. The IDE you will most likely use is XCode and the language of development will be Objective-C.
The Mono project seems to be developing an alternative to this in the form of the MonoTouch framework. Using this framework you can develop your iPhone applications in C# using MonoDevelop and they will be compiled to native iPhone applications; however, you still need the iPhone SDK and you still need to develop on a Mac. This framework is in closed preview at the moment, though.
For Symbian, it used to be the case that you needed to develop using the C/C++ libraries provided by the Symbian SDK but now you have the choice to develop in C++ using the Qt for S60 toolkit (I should note that it is still a technical preview).
Depending on what you are trying to build, you might want to develop J2ME applications which will work on all Java-enabled phones (thus you won't be limited to just the S60 platform). You can develop such J2ME applications using the EclipseME plugin for Eclipse.
For Blackberry, the default development environment is the Blackberry JDE. However, I hate the user interface on that tool and (for me at least) the usability leaves a lot to be desired. However, you have an alternative: There is an official Blackberry JDE plugin for the Eclipse IDE that makes developing Blackberry applications a joy (well not so much :) but still makes it really easy)
In case you are interested, you can develop Windows Mobile applications in C# targeting the .NET Compact Framework using Visual Studio (I think you can use the Express Edition, which is free).
Then, there is the Android platform. The default development environment for that platform is using the Android Eclipse plugin and developing in Java.
Hope, it helps.
iPhone sdk
Symbian
Blackberry
For Symbian, I would recommand Qt.
Moreover, you can use it for Windows CE based mobile.
I am willing to develop a mobile application. I wish to have something working for android, windows mobile, symbian and blackberry.
Which is the best way to do that?
I had read here:
You could aim to wrap the sections of
the platform specific APIs (iPhone SDK
etc.) that you use with your own
interfaces. In doing so you are
effectively hiding the platform
specific libraries and making your
design and code easier to manage when
dealing with differences in the
platforms.
I was hoping there exists a framework that does this for me, but it doesn't exist or I didn't find any.
I feel that sort of things will make my code harder to maintain and perhaps it's better to have one version for each platform.
Anyone with experience in the field?
Another links of interest:
most-promising-mobile-platforms
long-term-potential-of-iphone-windows-mobile-development-platforms
Does Java not count (in various guises)
Java on Symbian
Java for Windows Mobile
Java on Blackberry
Android Java Virtual Machine
It should be simpler to manage API differences in a consistent language/runtime platform where capabilities can be assessed in-code ... and configurations of code made at build-time.
As much as I dislike Java, it is fairly ubiquitous. As for the iPhone ... apart from it being much hyped and locked down ... you can get Java to run on jail-broken phones ...
What happened to Apple's open and friendly appearance? The cynic-inside knows the answer ;)
You might want to look into PhoneGap (http://phonegap.com/). From their own description page:
PhoneGap is an open source development tool for building fast, easy mobile apps with JavaScript.
If you’re a web developer who wants to build mobile applications in HTML and JavaScript while still taking advantage of the core features in the iPhone, Android and Blackberry SDKs, PhoneGap is for you.
In addition to using JavaScript, it supports JavaScript acccess to native controls and features of the phones (GPS, accelerometers etc...).
There really isn't any magic bullet that I'm aware of. Even within just the Blackberry platform, there are tons of different devices with different capabilities, screen resolutions, etc. And that's just from one, single manufacturer; Symbian and Windows Mobile are likely even worse.
The answer is likely that you should focus on relatively new and consistent platforms (accordingly with very few and all pretty much similar devices), like Android and iPhone OS, if you really want to reduce your code forking and maximize your audience.
My advice will almost certainly change within a few years when there are nine different iPhone OS devices and two dozen Android platforms.
The first question to ask yourself is if you need a native application, if you do not then designing a mobile web site solution should give you the most cross compatibility, failing that I would make a iPhone and J2ME solution (the J2ME can then be ported for Android relatively easily) for the greatest coverage of users
Or investigate Movilizer. Supports iOS, Android, WinPhone, WinMobile, Desktop PCs, embedded devices, ... and many more. It uses a design once run anywhere approach.
http://www.movilizer.com
try out different cross platform dev tools,
Developing cross platform mobile application