Mobile Apps cross-platform development

By mobile applications development we mean the process by which the

applications are developed for hand held devices. These include PDA's, mobile

phones, etc. These applications may either come by default installed on the

phone during manufacture or they can be downloaded from the support website

of the phone company. There are also some other sources that give these

applications for install and run on the mobile phones, these type of applications

which are not provided by the mobile phone company are called third party

applications. The phone allows the installation of a third party application but

the manufacturer does not guarantee the working of such an application. The

applications may be related to gaming, softwares, online services, etc

On the basis of mobile phone applications development platforms being used

nowdays here are the technologies of applications explained:

Android: Android is an open sourse operating system for mobile phones. It also

comes to be used in notebooks and tablet computers. It is a linux based OS, it is

developed by google. HTC is a phone company that uses android as its platform.

The applications for Android are made in java language.

iOS: iOS is the mobile operating system used in Apple's handheld devices. iOS

is owned by Apple, it was originally developed for iphone and has now being

developed for iPad also. Apple does not allow the use of iOS on any other third

party hardware. The multitasking ability was made functional in iOS4, before this

multitasking ability was limited to a section of applications. iOS does not support

flash, so sometimes information based on flash is not viewable, this is common

while browsing web pages.

BlackBerry: A Canadian company Research In Motion (RIM) develops the

BlackBerry OS. It is used for BlackBerry devices, it is a multitasking environment

OS, the operating system provides support for Java MIDP 1.0 and WAP 1.2.,

the current OS 5.0 provides a subset of MIDP 2.0. Developers make third party

applications using the APIs provided by blackberry.

Symbian: The symbian mobile platform is most popular in india. This type

plateform is very commonly used in nokia phones. it was officially made open

source in Feb/2010.

Now the capabilities of these smartphones have been taken to the next level and thus the users can expect better and more robust mobile app development and get applications to perform more complex functions in even better .