Decision Maker‘s Crib is a series of presentations. Each one covers a current decison maker topic. Information is provided in "naked" slides to focus on the content and to support copy&paste to reuse the pieces of information. This crib helps to decide which SDK or webkit is suitable when talking about mobile or native app development.

1. Decision Maker‘s Crib
Mobile App Development:
Analysis of common frameworks and
SDKs
March 2011

2. SDK - Overview
Product Development Plattforms Components Distinctivenes Pricing
Air Play C / C++ Android, iOS SDK (alpha) 2.500 US$ per
GUI Tools Seat
(under constr.)
Appcelerator HTML 5, Android, iOS Javascript Lib, Integration of Free community
Titanium CSS 3, Javascript Administration native modules edition without
and in Objective-C support
management (iOS) and Java available
environment (Android)
Phonegap HTML 5, Android, iOS, Project Online Build Free of charge
CSS 3, Javascript Palm, Symbian, template for Service
BlackBerry existing IDE
MoSync C / C++ Windows SDK Integrated 2.999 US$ per
Mobile, Java device DB, Seat
ME, Symbian Eclipse
(iOS, Android) integration
Corona Lua Android, iOS IDE and Own game 349 US$ p.a.
Command Line engine included
Tools (Build,
Debug)

3. SDK - Review
• Summary
– Promising approaches, particularly Air Play and
MoSync
– Products currently in early stage
– Air Play: main parts like UI Builder are still missing
– MoSync: supports 2 of 5 plattforms, prices starting
at 2500 USD per seat

4. Webkit - Overview
Product Development Plattforms Components Distinctivenes Pricing
Sensa Touch HTML 5, iOS, Android, Javascript Lib, Free community
CSS 3, Javascript (BlackBerry) CSS, API edition without
Browser support
available
JQ Touch/ HTML 5, iPhone, iPod Javascript Lib, Maintainer is Free community
JQuery CSS 3, Javascript Touch, (others) CSS Sencha Labs edition without
support
available
iUI HTML 5, iPhone Javascript Lib, Maintainer is Open Source
CSS 3, Javascript CSS Google
Net biscuits Graphical IDE, iPhone, iPod Cloud Service Development
.net Controls Touch, iPad, Build and Run, and Runtime
others Eclipse Plugin, environment as
.net Controls Cloud Service

5. Webkit - Review
• Summary
– Target group: web designer, to simplify mobile app
development by using existing web dev know how
– Why building mobile apps that look like native
ones when well optimized web pages work even
better?
– Poor debugging options