Leveraging Open Source Web Frameworks for Mobile Development
[caption id=“attachment_10529” align=“alignnone” width=“315”] The top ten strategic trends for 2012[/caption] Gartner’s 2012 article on the “Top 10 Technology Trends for 2012" shows an increasing importance placed on mobile-centric applications and interfaces and on development for media tablets and beyond. Source: Gartner (February 2012) With a forecasted worldwide media tablet sales of 118.9 million units in 2012, developers are leveraging on the various open source, cross platform web frameworks to rapidly develop and deploy mobile applications to cater to the market demand. [caption id=“attachment_10530” align=“alignnone” width=“307”] Worldwide sales of media tablets[/caption] Source: Gartner (April 2012) Let’s take a look at some of these frameworks and what they can offer: 1. Apache Cordova ...