PhoneGap!

Whether you’re looking for in-depth guides http://docs.phonegap.com/getting-started/1-install-phonegap/desktop
on how to get started creating PhoneGap apps or helpful references http://docs.phonegap.com/references/desktop-app
for using the PhoneGap tools, this is the place to go. How could you go wrong? Find out how to install PhoneGap, then create and preview an app on your device — almost as fast as a robot could do it.

PhoneGap alternatives

  • Android Studio

  • Android Studio is a new Android development environment based on IntelliJ IDEA. Similar to Eclipse with Android Development Tools for Eclipse, Android Studio provides integrated Android developer tools for development and debugging.Best IDE available for Android development specially with limited hardware options on development device.

    tags: android-development code-completion developer-tools ide integrated-android-emulator
  • Qt Creator

  • Qt Creator is a cross-platform C++, JavaScript and QML integrated development environment which is part of the SDK for the Qt Framework.

    tags: autocompletion debugger forms-design gui-layout ide
  • Apache Cordova

  • Apache Cordova is a set of device APIs that allow a mobile app developer to access native device function such as the camera or accelerometer from JavaScript. Combined with a UI framework such as jQuery Mobile or Dojo Mobile or Sencha Touch, this allows a smartphone app to be developed with just HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

    tags: hybrid ios-development javascript-api mobile-app mobile-apps-development
  • Xcode

  • Xcode is Apple's premiere development environment for Mac OS X. In addition to being packaged on the DVD with every copy of Mac OS X, the latest Xcode developer release is always available for free to ADC members and includes all the tools you need to create, debug, and optimize your applications. At the heart of the Xcode tools package is the Xcode IDE, a graphical workbench that tightly integrates a professional text editor, a robust build system, a debugger, and the powerful GCC compiler capable of targeting Intel and PowerPC regardless of host platform. Xcode is both easy to use, and yet powerful enough to build the largest Mac OS X applications. The complete Mac OS X developer tools chain is distributed as part of Xcode; these tools include Interface Builder, Instruments, Dashcode, the WebObjects framework, and the complete reference documentation, to name just a few. »

    tags: dashcode developer-tools development development-suite exe-compiler
  • Ionic Framework

  • Ionic makes it easy to build native-quality hybrid interactive applications using HTML5 and JavaScript.Built with Sass, optimized for AngularJS.

    tags: angularjs cross-platform hybrid-application hybrid-applications hybrid-apps
  • Xamarin Studio

  • Type intelligentlyWorld-class code completion unlocks the iOS, Android, and OS X APIs. Quickly look up methods and types, and discover API functionality.

    tags: Discontinued c-sharp cross-platform-development debugger development
  • React Native

  • React Native enables you to build world-class application experiences on native platforms using a consistent developer experience based on JavaScript and React. The focus of React Native is on developer efficiency across all the platforms you care about — learn once, write anywhere. Facebook uses React Native in multiple production apps and will continue investing in React Native.

    tags: hybrid-apps mobile-apps-development native-apps reactjs
  • Appcelerator Titanium

  • Appcelerator Titanium, offered for free by Appcelerator, lets web developers use web technologies, open source and cloud computing to build native apps for iPhone, Android, Windows, Mac OSX and Linux.

    tags: ajax application-builder code-completion cross-platform css
  • Cevelop

  • The C++ IDE for professional developers.

    tags: c-code c-development c-plus-plus coding developer-tools
  • Intel XDK

  • Intel® XDK provides a simplified workflow to enable developers to easily design, debug, build, and deploy HTML5 web and hybrid apps across multiple app stores, and form factor devices.Experience Intel® XDK - the easy and fast wayto get your apps to market.

    tags: android-development application-builder cross-platform developer-tools development
  • WebDGap

  • WebDGap allows you to convert any website or HTML/CSS/JavaScript web application to a native Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome application.

    tags: compile compilers lightweight-wrapper native portable-wrapper
  • Monaca

  • Comprehensive hybrid mobile app development platform. You can easily create a beautiful, high-performance mobile app with Web technologies - HTML5, CSS, JavaScript.

    tags: cloud-coding cloud-ide command-line-interface debugger-feature developers
  • NativeScript

  • NativeScript lets you develop truly native apps for iOS and Android from a single code base of JavaScript or TypeScript, XML and CSS. NativeScript takes your cross-platform code and translates it into the language that your target platform speaks.

    tags: android-development application-builder cross-platform development framework
  • Codename One

  • Codename One provides a comprehensive solution for WORA (write-once-run-anywhere) mobile app development. You write the applications in Java using and deploy the application to Android, iOS, Windows Phone, or other platforms. The resulting app is a native app (not HTML5).

    tags: android-development development development-tool framework ios-development