10个热门的Web移动应用程序开发相关工具

Ratchet : iPhone App Prototyping with HTML-CSS-JS

Amongst the most popular Mobile Application Tools used in developing mobile apps, Ratchet happens to be, on the top of the chart. Ratchet happens to be an open source tool box mainly used for prototyping iPhone apps with the help of web based technologies and languages such as CSS, HTML, and JavaScript etc. The components of this tool box closely resemble those present in iOS. For e.g. the forms, lists, buttons, sliders etc are much similar to those present in iOS. Moreover, this tool can be integrated with the prototypes of iPhone without inserting those lengthy codes.

Countly : Open Source Mobile Analytics App

Countly is an open source mobile analytics application, which helps in collecting the data regarding the usage of different applications from different mobile phones, and presents the same in a visual pattern, to give an idea about the trend, usage, and the behavior of the end user. This tool offers itself as a ‘utility’, in the real sense. Countly consists of three major components namely Android SDK, the Countly server along with front end, and the iOS SDK. By using this application, a developer can track the potential linking, usage, behavior, and reaction of different users towards different apps, and get a real-time feedback to develop better applications in future.

Appium : Test Automation Framework

This is another one of the most popular mobile application tools, being used by mobile app developers these days. This app helps in automating mobile app testing, which means that this app helps in testing any app using any of the popularly used programming scripts or frameworks like PHP, Python, Perl, JavaScript etc. Further, the best part about this tool is that this tool works for both Android and iOS apps.

Hammer.js : Touch Gestures with JavaScript

This tool helps in integrating touch gestures with the websites, so that the users can use these websites with much ease and comfort on any touch screen interface. This tool primarily makes use of jQuery, and works on all modern browsers.

iWebInspector : Web Debugging Tool for iOS Simulator

iWebInspector behaves like a ‘bug-scanner, and helps in debugging web applications. This application mainly runs on iOS stimulators ie; either on iPhones or iPads.

This application inspects each tab/application opened on the web at any of the browsers such as Google Chrome, Safari etc.

Mobjectify : Quickly Build Mobile Web Mockups

Offering itself as a mockup builder, this tool helps a web developer to add different web elements like buttons, footers, forms, content etc, without incorporating those lengthy steps.

Moreover the implementation of this tool needs just a few clicks. The option of live preview and exportation of results on a single HTML file are also available to make this application even more useful and convenient.

Mobiscroll

This tool comes as a jQuery plug-in, and helps in furnishing the details regarding date and /or time. This plug-in has an extremely attractive interface and comes in engaging skins. Moreover, Mobiscroll is compatible with most of the operating systems such as Android, iOS, UI etc.

Adaptive Images

Powered by Javascript-PHP, this resilient tool offers the convenience of delivering ‘size specific’ images for any browser on any device. In here, the PHP file re-sizes the images, while the JS file detects the actual size according to which the images are to be resized. This tool accepts images in file formats like .PNG, JPEG etc.