Mobile apps have never been this vital and popular before. With the easy and convenient availability of smart phones etc., the development of mobile phone apps have taken a new high. Users look for highly interactive mobile apps, which contribute towards making their lives interesting and convenient.
Creating web apps and sites for the Mobile Web has its own sets of challenges and techniques. From UIs optimized for fingers instead of mouse cursors to the bandwidth limitations that most portable personal devices have, developing for mobile devices requires a paradigm shift for those of us who’ve traditionally created products aimed at desktops.
Some common characteristics of JavaScript mobile web development frameworks:
Optimized for touch screen devices: Fingers as input devices instead of mouse cursors provide an extra set of challenges in user interface design. Mobile web development frameworks provide standard UI elements and event-handling specifically for mobile device platforms.
Cross-platform: Support for multiple mobile device platforms such iOS and Android allows you to get your app to a wide range of users.
Lightweight: Because of current bandwidth limitations, a stronger emphasis on lowering file weight is placed into mobile web development frameworks.
Uses HTML5 and CSS3 standards: Most mainstream mobile devices have web browsers that support HTML5 and CSS3, and so mobile web development frameworks take advantage of new features available in these upcoming W3C specifications for a better user experience. Below, you will find some of the most preferable mobile JavaScript frameworks that can improve your skills as a web developer.
Zepto, as the title spoiled it for you, is a mobile JavaScript framework that rectifies both of the issues mentioned above. It has a very small code base and is feather weight at around 8kb. Zepto’s API is jQuery compatible. If you use jQuery, you already know how to use Zepto.
Sencha Touch is amongst the pioneers in the field of HTML5 frameworks used for developing applications for mobile phones. The power and usability of Sencha Touch lies in the fact that it allows the users to create the applications which function amazingly on the screen of Android and iPhone devices. In fact it is amongst the most preferred choice for creating applications aimed at devices supporting iOS, Android and BlackBerry. Sencha Touch particularly support HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript. Thus it provides the users with the best of these three words – The multimedia (video and audio component) of HTML5, element backing up local storage, styling effects provided by CSS3 and other amazing features. If you require the application to be visually interactive, Sencha Touch is the best possible option. Besides, Sencha Touch is thoroughly documented and you also win yourself the support of its online community.
PhoneGap is an HTML5 app platform that allows you to author native applications with web technologies and get access to APIs and app stores. PhoneGap leverages web technologies developers already know best... HTML and JavaScript.
PhoneGap will use standards-based web technologies to bridge web applications and mobile devices. Plus, because PhoneGap apps are standards compliant, they’re future-proofed to work with browsers as they evolve.
jQuery Mobile
jQuery mobile framework takes the "write less, do more" mantra to the next level: Instead of writing unique apps for each mobile device or OS, the jQuery mobile framework allows you to design a single highly-branded web site or application that will work on all popular smartphone, tablet, and desktop platforms A unified, HTML5-based user interface system for 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.
Titanium
Appcelerator is the first mobile platform to combine the flexibility of open source development technologies with the power of cloud services. Although we are talking about HTML5 framworks for developing mobile applications, here is one JavaScript based framework which deserves due attention. The interface of Titanium is based on JavaScript and its framework contains the native code modules. It can be used to render the web skills into native apps. The apps acts as if they have been coded in Objective C, which is vital of iPads and iPhones, or Java, which is required for developing Android apps. Titanium plays an important role in building apps which are social, easy to use, interactive and scalable.
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