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, the stark realities of actually getting these mobile and desktop web applications built in a timely and affordable manner stark sinking in.
Building business apps that run well on mobile devices and the desktop web is a difficult and complex problem because of:
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 skill shortages of people with the necessary coding skills to build mobile business applications
As result of the need to build once and run on multiple target platforms HTML5 has become very popular (according to Forrester and Gartner over 80% of business applications will be built using HTML5 by the end of 2015)
But there is more to the story.
While HTML5 has the intrinsic benefit of allowing applications to be built once and have them run on the various target devices, you still have to brace yourself for a lot of low level coding that involves HTML5, JavaScript, 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. It is called Alpha Anywhere
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 the use of an example where you build a mobile app that captures images into a database from a phone.
Watch and judge for yourself
Part1: http://www.ajaxvideotutorials.com/V1..._capture_1.swf
Part2: http://www.ajaxvideotutorials.com/V1..._capture_2.swf
BUT when companies dive into the pool, the stark realities of actually getting these mobile and desktop web applications built in a timely and affordable manner stark sinking in.
Building business apps that run well on mobile devices and the desktop web is a difficult and complex problem because of:
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 skill shortages of people with the necessary coding skills to build mobile business applications
As result of the need to build once and run on multiple target platforms HTML5 has become very popular (according to Forrester and Gartner over 80% of business applications will be built using HTML5 by the end of 2015)
But there is more to the story.
While HTML5 has the intrinsic benefit of allowing applications to be built once and have them run on the various target devices, you still have to brace yourself for a lot of low level coding that involves HTML5, JavaScript, 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. It is called Alpha Anywhere
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 the use of an example where you build a mobile app that captures images into a database from a phone.
Watch and judge for yourself
Part1: http://www.ajaxvideotutorials.com/V1..._capture_1.swf
Part2: http://www.ajaxvideotutorials.com/V1..._capture_2.swf