Developing software for mobile phones is such a challenge! Not only do you have to deal with the wide variety of hardware, you’d also have to deal with the different platforms available. Imagine trying to make your mobile application or game available on the Symbian, Java, Windows Mobile, Android, iPhone OS, Blackberry, Danger platforms!Well, Mobile Sorcery has come up with a solution to change all that — MoSync. An open source SDK for cross platform mobile software development that allows you to create a mobile application that will run on a wide variety of mobile devices. It’s not an easy undertaking but the good thing is that Mobile Sorcery has gotten some investments from MySQL founders David Axmark and Michael Widenius and other investors. The exact amount of investment hasn’t been disclosed but some advice from the open source MySQL veterans would also help a lot.
Cross platform development is nothing new. Existing technologies like J2ME also allows mobile developers to create a mobile software for a wide variety of mobile phones. The key factor to consider here is just how easy it would be to develop a piece of software and have it run on several platforms without much tweaking or the need to maintain several sets of source code.
Mobile Sorcery wants to change all that. They are essentially aiming to make it so much easier to create applications that will run on a widely varied platform using a single set of source code. MoSync is currently available for Symbian, J2ME and Windows Mobile. Work is being done as I write this post to make it available on the Android and iPhone platforms as well.
What would be interesting to see is if MoSync will succeed where J2ME and Flash failed on the iPhone. What do you think?
MoSync is open source. You can download it from MoSync.
i have started studying about mosync, i came across lot of system call so is there any website which will guide us the studying of mosync