Mobile platforms are intended to provide mobile software and mobile applications to the mobile devices. Every mobile platform provides a unique environment for mobile application and software development. Mobile platforms have different compatibilities with different devices.
Popular mobile platforms – Android, App Catalog, App Store, Ovi store and Windows Phone Marketplace stores.
Mentioned below in the Exhibit are the popular mobile platforms for the mobile devices. All these mobile platforms are the available in the market place and allow individual developer’s to develop applications on the platforms. The IDE for all these platforms are as well freely available. Samsung in second half of the 2010 has launched Samsung Bada.
Exhibit : Popular Mobile Platforms
|
Name |
Established |
Owner |
Available apps |
Installed base |
Device platform |
Development tool(s) |
|
Android Market |
October 22, 2008 |
|
250,000 (Jul 2011)
estimated 440,000 (Jul 2011)
|
130 million (Jul 2011) |
Android |
Android SDK |
|
App Catalog |
June 6, 2009 |
Palm/HP |
7,062 (Jun 2011) |
2.6 million (Jul 2010) |
webOS |
Mojo SDK |
|
App Store |
July 10, 2008 |
Apple |
425,000 (Jun 2011) |
222 million (July 2011) |
iOS |
iOS SDK, Xcode |
|
App World |
April 1, 2009 |
RIM |
37,176 (Jul 2011) |
46 million (July 2010) |
BlackBerry OS |
BlackBerry SDK |
|
Ovi Store |
May 26, 2009 |
Nokia |
83,579 (Jul 2011) |
825 million (Jun 2011) |
MultipleSymbian, Java, MeeGo, Maemo |
Qt SDK, Nokia Web Tools, Nokia SDK 1.0 for Java |
|
Windows Phone Marketplace |
October 21, 2010 |
Microsoft |
28,038 (Jul 30 2011) |
3.5 million (Mar 2011) |
Windows Phone 7 |
Windows Phone Developer Tools, includes specialty versions of Microsoft Visual Studio, Expression Blend |