Mobile Enterprise Application Development

A Cross-Platform Framework

Abstract

In today’s business mobility of information systems is an important topic. Almost no company can get by these days
without mobile software solutions. At the same time we are going through a convergence of desktop and mobile, web and
native application development. Because of this clear necessarity of mobility and mobile development it is not surprising
that there is a large number of different recommendations for software developer using different technologies. This paper
is going to point out the basic approach of a cross-platform application framework using the example of PhoneGap and -
more importantly - highlights and answers the question if the often promised universal applicability of these frameworks
really apply and a one-off source code is enough to deploy an enterprise application.