Dear Ahmed,

I think there are many available tools for cross platform mobile development.

Here are some of the most popular:

1. CoronaLabs (http://coronalabs.com/)

2. Xamarin (http://xamarin.com)

3. MoSync (http://www.mosync.com)

4. Whoop (http://www.mastersoftwaresolutions.com/Whoop)

5. Appcelerator (http://www.appcelerator.com)

6. RhoMobile (http://rhomobile.com)

7. SenchaTouch (http://www.sencha.com/products/touch/)

8. PhoneGap (http://phonegap.com)

Dear Ahmet,

beside the already mentioned ones: there is also cordova (http://cordova.apache.org). It has a common basis with Phonegap, still i think it's worth having a look.

Anyway, another good hint might be PhoneGap Build Service which allows you to upload your code and this cloud service will provide you ready to install apps for different mobile operating systems.

Best,

  Marc

i can recommend Cordova in combination with visual studio 2013 - free for non-commercial work...runs out of the box without big configuration challenges and is able to live emulate ipads/android/windows phone/blackberry devices...

Please note that cross-platform solutions are often very poor in performance, especially the web-native hybrid. Consider something like appcelerator, mono, applause, rhomobile, xamarin, etc.

I used Mosync "http://www.mosync.com" for building couple of applications and you can simply use JQuery mobile within Mosync to create whatever applicaitons you would like to create. You can use any webservice and call it with ajax from your JQMobile pages to interact with your server. So all what you need to do is:

1. Learn JQMobile

2. Learn Ajax calls

3. Have a web service that controls and interacts with your database and code. (I personally use web2py framework as a server and write my controllers with python).

4. Create a hybrid application or an HTML5 application inside mosync and start adding JQMobile pages inside it and call your web services using ajax.

5. Build to any platform.

6. Test your project either on the web, phone emulator or connect your phone to your computer and test it.

Let me know if you need any more information.

In general i would agree with Carsten. Anyway, there are also services like Phonegap Build that you can build apps for certain platforms without having the according development platform, e.g., iOS apps without having a Mac.

Best,

  Marc

There are several newer frameworks available if this is still of interest. 

• React Native (https://facebook.github.io/react-native/)
• Fuse (https://www.fusetools.com/)
• NativeScript (https://www.nativescript.org/)
• Tabris.js (https://tabrisjs.com/)