10 great tools to build your Apps

Mobile apps are in abundance today. New apps keep getting added to various mobile platforms each day. As such, it’s an exciting time for developers who specialise in building mobile apps. Also, the pressure of coming out with apps quickly so that a similar app doesn’t make it to stores before theirs could be daunting. Here are a few app development tools that developers can use to build apps quickly.

1.Appcelerator

Main products are Titanium, an open-source software development kit for cross-platform mobile development, and the Appcelerator Platform, an enterprise software suite for mobile app development, testing, deployment, and analytics.

2.Mobile Chrome Development Kit

Developer Preview tool chain based on Apache Cordova that targets iOS, Android, and Chrome apps with a user interface that is standard HTML and CSS integrated into Android and iOS native toolkits.

3.ViziApps

Online mobile application platform for creating native and web mobile applications for the iPhone, iPad and Android smartphones and tablets. The online service enables customers to build mobile apps without coding including both the design of the user experience and the design of data interfaces from many data source types.

4.Salesforce1

The Salesforce1 Platform accelerates mobile app development for connected companies. It powers millions of mobile enterprise applications including the Salesforce1 Mobile App.

5.QuickBase

Web-based collaborative database application that allows business people to create their own custom applications without writing code.

6.iBuildApp

Web builder offering customisable templates for iPhone, iPad, and Android apps and claims that you can create an app in mere five minutes. 

7.Form.com

Offers true end-to-end mobile business solutions from simple field service forms with digital signature capabilities to multistep mobile applications integrated across the enterprise.

8.AppArchitect

Web-based, no-code, drag-and-drop builder and platform for native iPhone and iPad apps that provides plug-in building blocks written in Objective-C, along with an AppArchitect SDK.

9.App Press

Web-based no-code app creator for iPhone, iPad, and Android applications that has a Photoshop-like user interface and is an Amazon cloud-based service and platform. 

10.Alpha Anywhere

The complete front-end to back-end, prototype-to-production environment for rapidly developing and deploying enterprise-level, cross-platform mobile and web business applications. 

source: Efytimes