9 Mobile Framework to Kick Start Your Mobile Development Career
Introduction
Mobile development has been growing since the day Apple introduced
iPhone. Mobile browser has never been so robust. It supports HTML5, CSS3
even with CSS animation. After that, Google introduced Android, and the
era of mobile platform has began.
In the mobile industry, it has quite a few of frameworks available
aiming to create a mobile web app rapidly. To help you start up your
mobile development, I have done some research on all mobile frameworks,
and below is the list. I have used jQTouch before, it's pretty easy to
implement but definitely has a lot of room of improvement.
- Zepto.js Zepto.js
is a minimalist JavaScript framework for mobile WebKit browsers, with a
jQuery-compatible syntax. The goal: a 2-5k library that handles most
basic drudge work with a nice API so you can concentrate on getting
stuff done. Zepto.js is currently in early beta, and you can help to
make it awesome by contributing code, documentation and demos.
- DynamicX DHTMLX
Touch is an HTML5-based JavaScript library for building mobile web
applications. It???s not just a set of UI widgets, but a complete
framework that allows you to create eye-catching, cross-platform web
applications for mobile and touch-screen devices.
- Sencha Sencha
Touch, the first HTML5 mobile JavaScript framework that allows you to
develop mobile web apps that look and feel native on iPhone and Android
touchscreen devices, has just hit the big 1.0. And best of all, it???s
completely free to use.
- jQuery Mobile A
unified user interface system across all popular mobile device
platforms, built on the rock-solid jQuery and jQuery UI foundation. Its
lightweight code is built with progressive enhancement, and has a
flexible, easily themeable design.
- jQTouch A jQuery plugin for mobile web development on the iPhone, iPod Touch, and other forward-thinking devices.
- Wink ToolKit Wink toolkit is a mobile JavaScript framework for building webapps on iPhone, iPad and Android
- iUI iUI
is a framework consisting of a JavaScript library, CSS, and images for
developing advanced mobile webapps for iPhone and comparable/compatible
devices.
- iWebkit iWebKit is a file package designed to help you create your own iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad compatible website or webapp.
- WebAPP.net WebApp.Net
is a light weight, powerful javascript framework taking advantage of
AJAX technology. It provides a full set of ready to use components to
help you develop, quickly and easily, advanced mobile web applications.
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