My Growing Love Affair with AppMobi
I’m teaching mobile app development next term. There are actually dozens of development platforms to pick from and I’ll admit it’s been hard to narrow down the list. I’ve worked with Appcelerator, Played with PhoneGap, and even explored the reintroduction of Dreamweaver as options. Another set of tools that I keep coming back to is appMobi XDK. Its an IDE from appMobi that let you employ both the PhoneGap and AppMobi’s API’s, which in conjunction with what you already know about HTML 5, CSS, and javascript, makes for a fairly straight-forward and compelling development platform for new developers (i.e. students). The emulator is quite nice too, making this a nice tool for developing once for many platforms regardless of OS. There’s an infoworld article that summs it up pretty well - you can access it here, after an annoying ad (click the upper right-hand corner to skip).
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