Cross Platform
Appspresso is a mobile app framework which wraps source code developed with web technology by each mobile platform runtime and builds them into native mobile apps. Currently, developers can build Apple iOS apps, Google Android apps. Moreover, Appspresso plans to support Microsoft Windows Phone, RIM BlackBerry, and Samsung Bada. more
Web Standards
Appspresso does not enforce its own non-standard runtime environment
but provides a web engine embedded in the mobile platform as a runtime
environment. Therefore, development is easily done using only the standard web technologies such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Not only that, existing web-based contents can easily be migrated to apps.
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WAC Compatibility
Appspresso is the only mobile framework that supports
the device API of WAC (Wholesale Application Community) called Waikiki API.
Waikiki API is a JavaScript API that allows utilization of local resources such as camera, contacts, accelerometer, device status, file system, and etc.
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Appspresso Studio
Appspresso provides an integrated development environment for Eclipse. It’s possible to develop apps using Appspresso Studio environment regardless of the target mobile platform. With one click of a mouse, iOS and Android apps can be built and WAC apps can be packaged. In particular, Appspresso studio provides “on the fly building” function which immediately reflects revised source code without recompiling. more
Appspresso Plug-in
Appspresso PDK allows developers to use native language to create user-defined functions and expose them through JavaScript API. Waikiki API that is built into Appspresso was also developed using Appspresso PDK. Appspresso runtime provides a plug-in architecture for supporting custom plug-ins and Appspresso Studio includes a PDK (Plug-in Development Kit) necessary for those plug-in developments. more
