BURLINGTON, MA. November 12, 2013 – Alpha Software Corporation today announced the latest version of its Alpha Anywhere coding-optional development environment, which makes it much easier to build responsive HTML5 applications once, and deploy them on any device with a native-like experience. The company also unveiled a new website focused on advancing the concept of Responsive App Design and helping developers build business applications that are required to run on a wide variety of platforms.
Responsive App Design is important to developers creating business applications in HTML5 that require extensive layout changes and user interface capabilities. Building business applications, which must perform functions such as manipulating multiple forms of data, conducting queries or controlling remote devices, goes far beyond Responsive Web Design, which is focused solely on websites that are mainly read. Alpha Software is sponsoring a website, initially curated by Alpha CTO Dan Bricklin, to share resources with businesses and developers: www.responsiveappdesign.org
Alpha Anywhere lets developers build HTML5 applications that utilize a single code base to power optimized experiences on any mobile device, laptop or desktop. The latest release includes the new Responsive Layout Genie that assures HTML5 applications are responsive to the environment in which they are running. With the Responsive Layout Genie, developers use a wizard-like interface to quickly and simply specify a list of rules and associated actions for setting the attributes of the various user interface controls.
"Responsive App Design allows HTML5 to deliver on one of its major promises — the ability to easily build an application once and then deploy it on multiple devices, with native-like appearance and performance, ensuring that the application takes full advantage of a device's display real estate," said Bricklin. "This new resource website combined with the latest release of Alpha Anywhere demonstrates our commitment to empowering developers to utilize a single code base to create applications that look, act and feel the way users expect them to, whether running on a smartphone, tablet, desktop or laptop."
Another key, new Alpha Anywhere feature is the Absolute Layout Container, which uses a simple drag-and-drop interface to let developers reproduce paper forms on the screen.
Alpha Anywhere developers have high praise for the new capabilities.
For developers who are taking their businesses mobile, Alpha Software offers a free, license of Alpha Anywhere. For more information, visit: www.alphasoftware.com
About Alpha Software Corporation
Alpha Software products deliver significant productivity gains to developers of all levels building cross-platform mobile and web business apps. Alpha Anywhere is a front-end and back-end, low-code, rapid mobile application development and deployment environment. Alpha Anywhere applications showcase built-in offline capability, easy integration with existing data and applications, and advanced security. Developers and business leaders in thousands of organizations across one hundred countries have used Alpha Software products to cost-effectively deploy enterprise applications with outstanding user experiences. For more information, visit www.AlphaSoftware.com, or follow us on Twitter at @AlphaSoftware.
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The Alpha platform is the only unified mobile and web app development and deployment environment with distinct “no-code” and “low-code” components. Using the Alpha TransForm no-code product, business users and developers can take full advantage of all the capabilities of the smartphone to turn any form into a mobile app in minutes, and power users can add advanced app functionality with Alpha TransForm's built-in programming language. IT developers can use the Alpha Anywhere low-code environment to develop complex web or mobile business apps from scratch, integrate data with existing systems of record and workflows (including data collected via Alpha TransForm), and add additional security or authentication requirements to protect corporate data.
Alpha Software Corporation, based in Massachusetts, produces award-winning software that speeds mobile and web app development and deployment for business and IT. The core technology includes two components. Alpha Anywhere®, a full-stack low-code app development platform for building and deploying web and mobile apps. In just hours, Alpha TransForm® turns complex paper forms into powerful mobile forms that speed data collection.
Alpha Software is an InfoWorld Technology of the Year award winner, and scores near-perfect reviews from customers on crowdsourced review sites.
Customers rate Alpha Software highly for its speed of development, flexibility, offline apps, rich feature set and ability to scale predictably. For more information, visit https://www.alphasoftware.com/