10 Open Source Tools For Mobile Development

1.Zepto

Zepto is a minimalist JavaScript library for modern browsers with a largely jQuery-compatible API. If you use jQuery, you already know how to use Zepto. 

2.DHTMLX Touch

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. 

3.PhoneGap

PhoneGap is a free and open source framework that allows you to create mobile apps using standardised web APIs for the platforms you care about. 

4.Sencha Touch

With over 50 built-in components, themes for every popular mobile platform, and a built-in MVC system, Sencha Touch provides everything you need to create powerful, universal mobile web apps.

5.The M Project

The-M-Project is a mobile HTML5 JavaScript framework that helps you build great mobile apps, easy and fast.

6.Backbone.js

Backbone.js gives structure to web applications by providing models with key-value binding and custom events, collections with a rich API of enumerable functions, views with declarative event handling, and connects it all to your existing API over a RESTful JSON interface. 

7.Titanium platform

The Titanium SDK lets you develop native, hybrid and mobile web applications from a single codebase. Titanium Studio is an extensible, Eclipse-based IDE for building Titanium applications and web applications.

8.AMPchroma

Pega AMP, the Application Mobility Platform, is the industry’s most complete and flexible unified platform for building, deploying, integrating, and managing mobile apps. Pega AMP provides model-driven development options along with access to best-of-breed mobile development tools to build virtually any mobile app. Reusable services speed deployment. A comprehensive dashboard manages the entire lifecycle process. 

9.Mobjectify

Mobjectify simplifies mobile development. Whether you want to build simple mockups to test on different devices or build working apps, Mobjectify offers you the tools to speed up your workflow. Use the bundled widgets, to generate a prototype styled using jQuery Mobile in just a few minutes, and brainstorm with actually running designs rather than paper layouts or wireframes.

10.Appium

Appium is an open source test automation framework for use with native and hybrid mobile apps. It drives iOS and Android apps using the WebDriver JSON wire protocol.