Top 5 Frameworks for Mobile Development

Mobile developers today are widening the scope of their expertise; they are not only solving these issues but are developing mobile websites that have impressive layouts, are touch-friendly and are based on frameworks that work flawlessly on smartphones and tablets.

Generally, JavaScript has made it easy to use touchscreen devices. With it, we can enable websites to respond to finger gestures such as tap, scroll and zoom. JavaScript has not only resolved cross-browser compatibility issues but has made it easy to develop cross-platform websites, which increases the number of users.

Most JavaScript frameworks are lightweight, which makes web browsing fast without compromising the look of a website. Mobile websites increasingly use HTML5 and CSS3, adhering to the W3C specifications—which are another boon to JavaScript frameworks.

If you are not using a CSS framework in your current workflow, you should seriously consider it. To work with a framework, you will of course need to learn how to use it, but once you learned the advantages are quite huge.

Not only working with a framework will let you build websites faster, but it will also encourage you pay more attention to things some web designers overlook, like using a grid, including a print stylesheet, or making your site responsive, among other things. Now let’s take a look at the best and most popular CSS frameworks.

jQuery Mobile

jQuery Mobile: Touch-Optimized Web Framework for Smartphones & Tablets

A unified, HTML5-based user interface system for all popular mobile device platforms, built on the rock-solid jQuery and jQuery UI foundation. Its lightweight code is built with progressive enhancement, and has a flexible, easily themeable design.

Seriously cross-platform with HTML5

jQuery mobile framework takes the "write less, do more" mantra to the next level: Instead of writing unique apps for each mobile device or OS, the jQuery mobile framework allows you to design a single highly-branded web site or application that will work on all popular smartphone, tablet, and desktop platforms. Device support

The M Project

The-M-Project is a Mobile HTML5 JavaScript Framework that helps you build great mobile apps, easy and fast. The-M-Project is Open Source Software published under the MIT License. This gives you total flexibility for your development. Build great free and commercial apps with it.

With its model-view-controller (MVC) architecture, The M Project is popular among mobile developers for several reasons. The open source module, which is based on MVC, allows developers to isolate the data from the business logic. Moreover, the JavaScript framework supports multiple devices, making it easy to develop apps and websites that for smartphones, tablets and desktop computers.

Appcelerator Titanium

Deliver a real-time view of all your mobile apps 

The Appcelerator Dashboard displays all relevant information about your portfolio of mobile apps. It enables developers, architects, testers, managers, project teams, and business owners to view, analyze and take action to get their job done. Whether it is getting an aggregate view of all applications or drilling down into an individual project or app, Appcelerator’s Dashboard, through a “Single System of Engagement”, enables all parties involved in the Continuous Mobile Innovation Lifecycle to get the information they need, when they need it, and take action. 

Appcelerator Studio allows the creation of native apps across the widest range of devices and operating systems (e.g., iOS, Android, BlackBerry, Tizen, Denso mobile web and more). Designers and developers can work together in Appcelerator Studio to rapidly prototype the real app.

Appcelerator Cloud pre-built services provide developers with the widest set of scalable mobile services. This includes push notifications, photos, social connections, authorization and much more. Our Cloud unifies the development environment for connecting apps to the mobile cloud.  

Appcelerator Cloud custom services enable custom data integration with back end systems. Using our Node.js offering, developers can quickly and easily create mobile-optimized APIs that orchestrate data from multiple data sources such as SAP, Salesforce.com, Oracle, Sharepoint and others.

Sencha Touch

Counted among the best JavaScript frameworks, Sencha Touch is also a preferred framework among mobile web developers. The full-featured widget library is based on the Ext JS JavaScript library and targeted for Class A WebKit browsers. This high-performance HTML5 framework can be used for developing apps for multiple mobile operating systems, including iOS, Android, BlackBerry OS and Kindle.
The latest from Sencha Touch boasts an easier API, enhanced MVC and increased speed with native packaging, which is easy to use.

 

DHTMLX Touch

 

Free JavaScript Mobile Framework for HTML5 Web Apps

DHTMLX Touch is a free open source JavaScript library for building HTML5-based mobile web apps. It's not just a set of UI widgets, but a complete framework that allows you to create eye-catching, robust web applications that run on iOS, Android, and other mobile platforms.

If you are looking for a framework that advocates minimal coding, choose DHTMLX Touch. The user interface is easy to use and the framework lets developers churn out different kinds of apps for different mobile platforms.

 

How to win customer referrals?

Hands down, the most profitable way to find new customers is to motivate your customers to refer others to your business. Most companies don't pour enough energy into harvesting this low-hanging fruit.
Here are eight ways to get started, but I'm confident you can think of even more - if you invest time and energy into this fruitful activity.

1. Be bold - ask for referrals: Most companies make the most fundamental mistake; they fail to even ask for a referral, or they settle for just one. Ask your customers for referrals, and when they give you one, ask for another.

2. Practice win/win/win: Offer customers a chance to do something nice for their friends, in a visible way, and also benefit themselves. For example, give your customer a discount in return for a referral, but then send their friend a gift card in the name of their friend. The friend, customer and your firm all win.

3. Engage in not-so random acts of kindness: For your best customers, surprise them with kindness. I know one gregarious business development guy who sometimes walks into a client's office with a tray of oversized cupcakes, gives them a big smile, and yells, "Have a great day!" as he runs out the door. This isn't wasteful, it's wise. When you give people something of value, they feel an obligation to you. (That something can't be too valuable, or you'll make others uncomfortable.) What matters most is that your customer perceives genuine gratitude on your part, so much so that they want to tell others about your act of kindness.

4. Celebrate: Life is short; find excuses to celebrate, and when you do, invite your customers and suggest they bring their friends. Such celebrations aren't the place to engage in hard sells, but rather to build relationships and to show your customers' friends how good it must feel to be one of your customers.

5. Support what your customers support: Raise meaningful amounts of money for charities, schools and other causes about which your customers care. Invest 95% of your time and efforts in providing support to those organizations; don't make the mistake of spending more money bragging about your generosity than in actually being generous.

6. Make your references easy to access: A friend of mine wants to renovate his kitchen, and has been meeting with contractors. He was especially impressed by one, simply because the man had all his references organized by year and type of job, and he was open to having my friend call anyone he wished. This sort of open, frictionless approach to references provides prospective customers with tremendous amounts of reassurance.

7. Show your pride: When the media or a customer glows about something special your company did, tell other customers about it and make it easy for them to pass along your success story. For example, you could share this news as a "lesson learned", and write it up in a manner so that others can learn from it, too.

8. Say thanks: After a customer's order has been delivered, be sure to write or call to say thank you. Don't forget to ask if there is anyone else they know whom you could have the honor of serving. And when you say "honor of serving," you better mean it. If you feel that way, it will show, and if it shows, you'll be rewarded with more referrals than you ever dreamed possible.

The Role of Social Media in eLearning

This article reflects the use of social media in eLearning plus some tips on how social media can be used as learning platforms.

No one can deny the frenziness that has taken over the entire world with social media, in the last 10 years. Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, Google Plus and a bunch of others have become almost everyone’s second nature. Many think that social media is just another way to minimize personal communication and contact, for others an effective way to legitimately peek through people’s lives, and for others a pure waste of time with no value. Personal opinions are of course respected, yet we got to take a look at the other side. This article reflects the use of social media in eLearning. 

Teachers, instructional designers, educational institutions, companies, and even organizations have started to heavily rely on the use of social media in formal learning, to share practices, promote information and educational material, share opinions, views and comments, embodying them in training programs and individual courses.

One of the best outcomes is that learning has become learner-centric and not teacher-centric, which is the way it should have been all along. 

How Social Media Can Been Used As Learning Platforms?

Social media is basically a structure that consists of individuals, communities, companies or organizations with similar interests, attitudes, values, lifestyles, visions and friendships and in the field of eLearning this structure can be used in various ways and through a number of tools.
Let’s see the most popular ones: 

• Facebook
  The instructor can effortlessly create a closed or an open group, to share information, ideas, quizzes, questionnaires, materials, pictures, or even an entire page on a specific course or module. Students can freely talk about various course-related issues, questions they might have, post mutually interesting information and generally things they want to share. For more info please see the use of Facebook for social learning.
• Twitter
  In eLearning it can be used as a backchannel to connect learning communities or smaller classrooms over a specific topic or event, to share highlights, make statements, upload pictures, etc. All instructors have to do is create an account and communicate its #hashtag to their students/followers. Twitter is heavily used for social learning. 
• LinkedIn
  This is a purely professional, yet still social network, which has proven to be extremely useful in eLearning. Currently there are thousands of discussions and groups in various languages, where instructors, educators and influencers share views, problems, developments and how-to tips. It has an even higher value compared to the previous social platforms, since students/participants can actually see everyone’s professional profile and accomplishments, something that usually determines the status of the discussion leader, organizer, or expert. If you are interested in eLearning and Instructional Design I highly encourage you to join the Instructional Design & E-Learning Professionals' LinkedIn Group.
• Google Plus
  Google plus is an upraising star for social learning. Several eLearning professionals including me believe that Google Plus is going to be the most popular social media that is used as a learning platform. But why?  Google plus communities have been used heavily as learning platforms and one of the major reasons is that both learners and facilitators are getting less distracted versus Facebook and Twitter.  In addition, Ronald L raised an interesting issue “Students don’t like to use their social networks for their studies. They want to keep their private life and faculty life separated”. Last but not least, I very much agree with Steve Rayson who said: “The ability of G+ to host communities with video embeds, comments plus Google hangouts surely makes it the strongest social media platform for social learning”. For more valuable comments concerning eLearning and Instructional Design like the comment above I highly encourage you to join Instructional Design & e-Learning Professionals Google Plus community!
• YouTube
  An excellent resource for eLearning. It’s free and can be used to support a class, while viewers can also rate the video’s content and quality, as well as comment. These videos can be part of a course, but instructors can also use it to broadcast entire tutorials or just teasers to attract the audience they want. 

Bottom line: Originally taken from e-learn Industry.

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