Softwares / Mobile App Development Tools List
It is used to develop Mobile applications for mobile devices, such as personal digital assistants, enterprise digital assistants or mobile phones.
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Platform
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Language Used
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IDE used
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Cross-platform deployment
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Accelerator
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HTML5, C#
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Microsoft Visual Studio
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All platforms, mobile apps are browser-based
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MobileTogether
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XPath/XQuery, Action Trees visual programming language
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Proprietary IDE
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Android, iOS, Windows, Windows Phone, browser
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Android
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Java but portions of code can be in C, C++, Kotlin
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Eclipse, IntelliJ IDEA, Android Studio, Project Kenai Android plugin for
NetBeans
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Android
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App Inventor for Android
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Visual blocks-based programming language, with Interface designer
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Web-based interface designer, with connection to Java web-start program
for blocks programming
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Android devices
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Appcelerator
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JavaScript
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Titanium Studio based on Eclipse
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Android, iPhone; BlackBerry, Tizen, mobile web
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Basic4android
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Visual Basic similar syntax
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Proprietary IDE
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Android
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BlackBerry
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Java
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Eclipse, BlackBerry JDE
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BlackBerry only, because of RIM API
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Codename One
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Java
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Eclipse, Netbeans
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Android, iPhone, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, J2ME
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Corona SDK
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Lua
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Xcode
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Android, iOS, Nook Color
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DragonRAD
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Visual drag & drop tiles
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Proprietary IDE
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Android, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile
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GeneXus for Mobile and Smart Devices
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Knowledge representation and declarative programming-modeling for easy
development, then code is automatically generated for each platform
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Proprietary IDE
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Android, iOS (iPhone, iPad), BlackBerry OS, and even HTML5 if needed
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IBM MobileFirst Studio
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HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, and native SDK languages w/ Native Worklight API
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Eclipse plugin, Eclipse-based stand-alone
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Android, iOS, BlackBerry 6,7, & 10, Windows Phone 7.5 & 8, Windows
8 (desktop, tablets), Adobe AIR, Mobile Web App, desktop browser web page
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Intel XDK
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HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript and Node-Webkit back-end
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Stand-alone, bundled with IDE
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Android, iOS, Windows 8, Amazon, Facebook, Chrome, Nook, Firefox
Marketplace, Tizen
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iOS SDK
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Objective-C, Swift
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Xcode, AppCode
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iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch
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iOS SDK
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Object Pascal
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Embarcadero Delphi XE2
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iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch
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Java ME
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Java
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Eclipse, LMA NetBeans Mobility Pack
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Yes although many VM implementations have device specific bugs
necessitating separate builds
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Lazarus
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Object Pascal
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Lazarus IDE, including integrated GUI designer and debugger
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Compiled language available for Windows CE, Linux-based
devices, Symbian port in development
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LambdaNative
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Scheme
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Eclipse (software) (optional)
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All native binaries: Android, iOS, BlackBerry 10, Windows, OS
X, Linux, OpenBSD, OpenWrt
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LiveCode
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LiveCode
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Yes
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iOS, Android, macOS, Windows, Linux, server, HTML5. Installer packaging
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Macromedia Flash Lite
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ActionScript
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Macromedia Flash MX2004/8, Eclipse
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Yes
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Marmalade
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C, C++
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Visual Studio, Xcode
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All native: Android, BlackBerry, BREW, iOS (iPhone), Maemo, Palm-webOS,
Samsung bada, Symbian, Windows Mobile 6.x and desktop, OS X
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Meme IDE
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MemeScript
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Eclipse RCP
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Android, Windows Mobile
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Mendix
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HTML5, Java
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Yes, the Mendix app platform
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All platforms, mobile apps are browser-based
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Monaca
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HTML5, CSS, JavaScript
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Cloud-based IDE, Visual Studio, third-party IDE/editors
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Android, iOS, windows8.1, 10
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Mono for Android
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C#
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Visual Studio 2005 and MonoDevelop
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Android
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MonoTouch
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C#
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Visual Studio 2005 and MonoDevelop
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iOS
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MoSync
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C, C++, Lua, HTML5, CSS, JavaScript
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Eclipse, Visual Studio 2005 and later, MoBuild w/ text editors
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Android, iOS (iPhone), Java ME, Moblin, Smartphone 2003, Symbian, Windows
Mobile (Pocket PC), Blackberry (experimental)
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NetBeans
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C++, Java
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Java development tools
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Android (Mobile and Tablet), Nokia (Symbian, Seria 60 - 40- 80), etc...
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Protogrid
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No coding needed. JavaScript can be used for Business Logic.
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Proprietary IDE
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Web, iOS, Mobile Web
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OpenPlug
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ActionScript, XML
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OpenPlug ELIPS plugin for Adobe Flash Builder
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Android, iOS (iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch), Symbian, Windows Mobile
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OutSystems
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OutSystems, CSS, JavaScript
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OutSystems Service Studio
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Andoid, iOS, Windows Phone 7
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PhoneGap and Apache Cordova
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HTML, CSS, JavaScript
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Yes Many IDEs exist for Cordova-based tools like Ionic Studio or Appery.io
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iPhone, Android, Tizen, Windows Phone, BlackBerry, Symbian, Palm, Bada
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Qt SDK
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C++, QML
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Qt Creator
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Android (technology preview), iOS (technology
preview), Symbian, Maemo, MeeGo, Linux, Windows, OS X
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Rhomobile
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Ruby with HTML interface features compiled through an interpreter into
native applications
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Xcode or Eclipse, on-demand RhoHub version includes full IDE
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Yes, supports Android 1.6+, iOS 3.0+ (iPhone, iPad), Windows Mobile 6.1
Professional, Windows Mobile 6.0 Standard, BlackBerry 4.6, 4.7, 5.0, 6.0 (4.2
and 4.5 supported but database access is very slow on these devices), Symbian
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RubyMotion
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Ruby
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Any text editor. As an IDE, RubyMine.
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Android, iOS
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Sencha Touch
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HTML, CSS, JavaScript
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Sencha Architect 2
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Android, iOS (iPhone, iPad, iPod touch), Kindle, BlackBerry, Bada
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Smartface
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WYSIWYG design editor with JavaScript code editor
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Smartface IDE and SDK
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Yes Android, iOS (iPhone, iPad, iPod touch), Kindle, Gear, Google Glass
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Stencyl
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Drag-and-drop editor based on Scratch, Objective-C
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Xcode
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iOS (iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch)
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Telerik Platform, and AppBuilder
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HTML5, CSS and Javascript
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In-browser client, desktop client, Visual Studio, Sublime Text or
command-line interface (CLI)
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Android, iOS, Windows phone
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Unity
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C#, JavaScript, Boo, other .NET-based languages
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Unity Editor, also works with Visual Studios and MonoDevelop.
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Android, iOS (iPhone, iPad), PC, Mac, desktop browser, Xbox 360, PS3, Wii.
BlackBerry Playbook, Nokia Symbian, Roku 2 and others available through
company's Union program.
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Verivo AppStudio
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WYSIWYG, graphical drag and drop, JavaScript, .NET-based languages.
Replaced by Appery.io
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Proprietary design studio
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Android, iOS, Blackberry
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ViziApps
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WYSIWYG, graphical drag and drop
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Online design studio
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Android, iOS, Windows Phone planned
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V-Play Engine
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Objective C, C++, JavaScript, QML, Java
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Qt Creator
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All Platforms
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Wakanda
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HTML5, JavaScript
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Yes Wakanda Studio
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Android, iOS, Windows 10 (soon) and browser-based apps
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Xamarin
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C#
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Xamarin Studio (Mac only), Visual Studio (Windows only)
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Android, iOS, Windows Phone, Windows Store apps
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Xojo
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Xojo (similar to VB)
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Xojo IDE
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iOS, mobile web apps
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