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http://www.worklight.com/solutions/by-function/mobile-ide
The fragmented mobile landscape presents considerable challenges around application development. The growing number of OSs and mix of devices, form factors and standards have turned native application development into a cost-prohibitive strategy, resulting in a growing market of cross-platform solutions and mobile development tools.
But many solutions hold significant shortcomings. Be it proprietary interpreters, esoteric coding languages, pre-packaged apps, or limiting form-based IDEs, mobile developers are facing a tradeoff between cost and time to market and app capabilities.