Telerik pitches new framework for building Android, iOS, Windows apps
With Telerik’s open source framework NativeScript, programmers with expertise in JavaScript have a new option for cross-platform mobile app development. The resulting applications will be able to run directly on Android, iOS and Windows.After launching a beta in March, Progress Software-owned Telerik on Tuesday launched the first generally available version of NativeScript. The company describes it as a native framework that lets developers build apps for Android, iOS and later this year, Windows phones, with much of the same code. The choice of JavaScript as the underlying language wasn’t a coincidence.“We think it’s one of the most universal languages and skill sets out there,” said Todd Anglin, vice president of product management and marketing at Telerik.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here