Top Java Script Frameworks For Mobile App Development

Top JavaScript Frameworks For Mobile
App Development

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Introduction
Technically speaking, mobile apps in iOS, Android, and Windows Phone are coded using
different programming languages. An iOS app uses Objective-C, an Android app is coded
with Java, while a Windows Phone application uses .NET. However, with a decent
knowledge in JavaScript, CSS and HTML, you can build awesome mobile apps. Therefore, in
this blog we are going to discuss about top JavaScript frameworks for mobile apps –

Introduction (Cont.)
For web development, JavaScript has been a promising programming language and it’s not
going anywhere in near future. However, does JavaScript has the same impact on mobile
app development? let’s find out. Here are 9 top JavaScript frameworks for mobile app
development as per our research at ValueCoders:

9 Top JavaScript Frameworks for Mobile
1) PhoneGap/Cordova
PhoneGap (distribution of Apache Cordova) is a software development framework that helps
you to reuse your existing web development skills to quickly make hybrid mobile applications
built with HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Hence, this is not exactly a JavaScript framework,
however, it’s important for you to know about PhoneGap before you get started.

PhoneGap works as a medium between your web application codes and mobile OS APIs.
This diagram will help you understand better:
With the help of PhoneGap, you can use the same codes that you wrote in JavaScript,
HTML & CSS and generate APIs for mobile OS like Android and iOS.
Apart from PhoneGap, there are a few
more frameworks that can help your
JavaScript files to mobile APIs. Xamarin,
ionic, Corona are some honorable
mentions.

2) Titanium
Appcelerator’s Titanium is an open source application development platform that allows to
create native apps (mobile and desktop) using web technologies, such as HTML, JavaScript,
and CSS. The Titanium Mobile SDK is one of the most popular cross-platform mobile
development solution in use today with over 916109 mobile developers and 460, 587, 474
devices are running Accelerator powered apps.
Here is the architecture how Titanium
works:

3) jQuery Mobile
jQuery Mobile framework takes the “write less, do more” agenda to a next level. It is one of
the top JavaScript frameworks for mobile to build an application or mobile friendly website.
jQuery Mobile supports a number of user interfaces that are compatible with modern
platforms such as Android, iOS and to the earliest of platforms such as Opera Mini and Nokia
Symbian. With the help of PhoneGap you can integrate your jQuery web app code to an
interactive iOS or Android application.

4) Sencha Touch
Sencha Touch(similar to Ext JS) is said to be
the only framework that offers optimal
solutions to developers create fast and
impressive mobile applications that work on
Android, iOS, Kindle Fire, and more.
It comes with lots of creative and useful
components that work efficiently on all types of
mobile applications. Here is a glimpse of the
features.

Here is a feature comparison of the above four frameworks

5) React Native
If you are fond of Native mobile applications, you are majorly left with two options-
Xamarin and React Native. Xamarin allows you only to write the same kind of code while
programming natively – similar interface design tools & similar calls.
React Native (from Facebook) on the other hand, takes an entirely different path toward
native app development – JavaScript code, CSS-alike stylesheets and all-too-familiar,
HTML-alike tags for layout. Here’s a graph for clear understanding of React Native
popularity-

Hence, if your team is already React friendly, then React Native can be a good choice for you.

6) Meteor
Meteor is yet another JavaScript framework that can help you develop in interactive mobile
applications. Meteor not only allows your JavaScript code for mobile apps but also it gives
you ongoing control over your app. With this feature you can update the JavaScript code
without developer’s help and use the hot code push function to immediately deploy the
changes to users on all mobile platforms.
Another specialty of Meteor(version: 1.0) is that it maintains a local copy of data by
implementing its miniMongo database in phone internal memory. All of the phone-to-server
data communication and synchronization is provided by Meteor. miniMongo is a JavaScript
implementation of the MongoDB API. Here’s the architecture-

7) NativeScript
NativeScript is a Telerik invention for building
multi-platform native mobile applications from a
single code source. The NativeScript site and
GitHub page depict the runtime as empowering
developers to utilize JavaScript and TypeScript (
even Angular 2.0) to build native apps for
Android, iOS, and Windows Phone (using the
Windows Universal system) and offer code over
the platforms.
Here is the architecture that NativeScript
follows-

8) Rachet
Ratchet is another essential element in the top JavaScript frameworks for mobile development list.
It aims to provide developers & designers with a framework for building mobile-web apps. The
framework is created by the same team that brought the popular Bootstrap framework to you,
which assures the high quality of Ratchet. Whether you want to target Android, iOS, or both,
Ratchet 2.x is up for the job.

9) Mobile Angular UI
One of the top JavaScript frameworks for mobile is ‘Mobile Angular UI”. If you are an Angular fan,
then this framework is for you. It provides essential mobile components that Bootstrap 3 misses.
Switches, overlays, scrollable areas, sidebars, absolute positioned top and bottom navbars that
don’t bounce on scroll are some of the features to mention.

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