IBM has tied up with Xamarin to help developers build great native apps across iOS, Android and Windows platforms which can be easily linked to enterprise data and systems. This move comes as a result of the growing need for enterprise systems to be made available on smartphones.
Thanks to this move, the developers will be able to take advantage of C# to build applications and reuse code. They can use Xamarin’s IDE or Visual Studio to build the apps. IBM has a new SDK which can be used by developers to connect these apps to any back-end system.
IBM’s Worklight Server is the gateway between these apps and the back-end systems. It takes care of synchronization, provides access to data and provides the response in a mobile-friendly format. This takes care of larger files which commonly cause an issue with slower mobile networks.
Not only C#, Worklight also includes a development platform called Studio, which can be used to create HTML5 and Native Applications, or a hybrid of the two.
This move from IBM comes close on the heels of IBM’s partnership announcement with Apple. It is clear that going ‘mobile’ seems to be a key strategy for IBM.
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