Finding a better way to mobility through rapid HTML5 software development tools
Smart companies are clearly interested in taking advantage of mobility and are looking to build an increasing number of mobile business apps in order to achieve a competitive advantage. But, when companies dive into the pool and start evaluating software development tools to get the job done, the stark realities of actually getting these mobile and desktop web applications built in a timely and affordable manner start sinking in.Building business apps that run well on mobile devices and the desktop web is a difficult and complex problem for many reasons. Two of the most critical are:
- The added complexity caused by the need to build business applications that take advantage of and are optimized for both the desktop web and for a variety of mobile devices with varying screen sizes
- An acute shortage of people with the necessary coding skills to build mobile business applications
But there's more to the story
While HTML5 has the intrinsic benefit of allowing applications to be built once and then run on various target devices, it still requires significant low-level coding involving HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS3 on the front-end (browser), and SQL, reporting, security, charting, REST service calls, image/video handling, etc on the back-end (server).There has to be a faster and easier way. We think there is and our customers agree. It is called Alpha Anywhere.
Video: Alpha Anywhere vs. other popular HTML5 software development tools
To illustrate the difference between building mobile apps using the Alpha Anywhere way (high-level with coding being optional) and the low-level approach (using Sencha as an example) where lots of coding is required, we created this short video that compares and contrasts the two approaches through an example in which a mobile app is built to capture images from a phone into a database.More videos (type "camera" into the search bar)
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