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Thinking of building a mobile app?

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Aug 28, 20131 min

7 of the best tools for building killer mobile apps

If you’re thinking of building a mobile app you don’t have to go “native”. Going with native tools can produce robust, complex apps but the downside is that porting from iOS to Android to Windows to Linux to … quickly becomes a nightmare.

I have a better idea: Check out this slideshow of 7 tools that will make building that killer cross-platform app a whole lot easier. If you have any tools to add to this list, let me know …

Comment below or to gearhead@gibbs.com. Follow Gibbs on Twitter, App.net, and Facebook.

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Mark Gibbs is an author, journalist, and man of mystery. His writing for Network World is widely considered to be vastly underpaid. For more than 30 years, Gibbs has consulted, lectured, and authored numerous articles and books about networking, information technology, and the social and political issues surrounding them. His complete bio can be found at http://gibbs.com/mgbio

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