In addition, SAP announced agreements with Adobe, Appcelerator and Sencha to provide developers with a mobile app development framework.
Corona Labs (formerly Ansca Mobile), the makers of the cross-platform mobile app development framework known as the Corona SDK, has raised an additional $2 million in funding from existing investor Merus Capital and new investor Western Technology Investment WTII).
Corona Labs (formerly Ansca Mobile), the makers of the cross-platform mobile app development framework known as the Corona SDK, has raised an additional $2 million in funding from existing investor Merus Capital and new investor Western Technology Investment WTII).
With the new funding, the plan now is to continue development, and specifically focus on the CouchCommerce open source web app development framework (see CouchCommerce.org), which Ringsdorff explains will allow partners and agencies take the CouchCommerce technology and build their own custom integrations.
Adobe's PhoneGap mobile app development framework for bringing HTML5 hybrid apps to mobile devices is incredibly popular, but even though developers love the fact that they can write cross-platform re-usable code with it, it's not exactly known for being very fast.
Enyo is a cross-platform JavaScript framework for app development.
Lanman, a former Microsoft VP who continues to make angel investments (he led the seed round of Class Pass), is trying out the "company builder" model, dividing his efforts between Doppler Labs, which is focused on wearable tech products, and DWNLD, a framework for mobile app development in the same space as the recent Palantir acquisition, Propeller.
The competitive landscape for app development tool providers keeps getting tighter, with Meteor Development Group raising $20 million for its stack of frameworks and tools for developing web and mobile applications in JavaScript.
Motorola is today announcing the launch of RhoElements, a Web-based application framework made possible through its acquisition of the cross-platform mobile app development platform Rhomobile.
Activity Starter is mostly for advanced developers, but it's a key way to extend the App Inventor, because it means lets you take advantage of applications written by others, and created with other development frameworks.
App development without coding.
