5 Cross-Platform Mobile Development Tools You Should Try. This series is supported by Rackspace, the better way to do hosting.
Learn more about Rackspace's hosting solutions here. As mobile OSes — especially iPhone and Android — wax and wane, the pressing question remains: How do you choose which mobile devices to develop for and which devices to omit from your roadmap? Cross-OS platforms for mobile development on the whole are not yet a completely perfect, have-your-cake-and-eat-it-too solution, but many of them offer an excellent alternative to ignoring one mobile OS in favor of another or, perhaps worse, burning serious resources to develop for two or three platforms at once.
Here are a few cross-platform development tools that were recommended to us by sources we trust. If you know of others or if you have any helpful tips about the frameworks we're mentioning here, please let us know about them in the comments. 1. The tagline "one codebase, every smartphone" pretty much says it all. 2. 3. 4. 5. Bonus Round: Whoop Series supported by Rackspace. Remote desktop software with high performance video & audio. ES File Explorer. ES, 300 millions global downloads, file manager trend leader on Android!
Rated as one of best resource management tools on Android market. ES File Explorer is a free, full-featured file and application manager. It functions as all of these apps in one: file manager, application manager, task killer, download manager, cloud storage client (compatible with Dropbox, Google Drive, SkyDrive, Box.net, Sugarsync, Yandex, Amazon S3, and Ubuntu One...), FTP client, and LAN Samba client.
It provides access to pictures, music, video, documents, and other files on both your Android devices and your computers. ES File Explorer allows Android users, no matter where they are, to manage their resources freely.
About Remote Test Lab - SAMSUNG Developers. The Remote Test Lab is a solution that enables developers to control devices remotely. Using the Remote Test Lab service, you can test your application on a real device. The Remote Test Lab service enables developers to access Samsung mobile devices through the web and to install and test applications on the devices. This is not only the most effective and easiest way to test the compatibility of an application with Samsung mobile devices but also the best way to cut down on hardware costs for test devices. Interaction with the device is performed over the network in real time allowing you to comprehensively test your application before distributing it. System Requirements A Samsung Developers account ( The Java Web Start files included in the JRE* (Java Runtime Environment).
User Privilege The Remote Test Lab service is available to all users of the Samsung Developers Forum ( The following credit policy is applied. 20 credits are provided to each Samsung Developer user every day.