Symbian teams with Nitobi for cross-platform mobile apps

The nonprofit Symbian Foundation announced an open-source collaboration with Nitobi, creators of the PhoneGap mobile application development framework, promising to simplify mobile software development. According to the Symbian Foundation, developers who integrate its web application creation tools as well as Nitobi's write-once, run-anywhere PhoneGap platform can more efficiently build apps optimized for all major mobile platforms; Nitobi will also contribute PhoneGap to Symbian for inclusion in the Symbian^3 platform web extensions package, giving developers conversant in HTML, CSS and JavaScript the tools to write a mobile application once and deploy it across multiple operating systems and devices. Developers can also access native device capabilities including telephony, contacts, camera, accelerometers, orientation and location. To acquire the new tools, click here.

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