Kony adds HTML5 to app building platform
Kony’s KonyOne platform is available across smartphones, tablets and PCs, It allows developers to define an app just once, and deploy it across more than 9,000 devices, seven operating systems and multiple channels.
The US-based firm is already working with brands including Hotwire, Huntington Bank, Hyatt, Toyota and Capital One.
This new update adds HTML5 – and therefore web apps – to the range of formats that the platform can support. Specifically the features include:
* HTML5 elements: including new form fields, audio and video elements.
* Touch specific features: touch events and resolve them as a tap, double tap, long press or swipe.
* CSS 3.0 Specifications: leveraging media queries to target CSS specific to device DPI, with CSS gradients, rounded corners and shadows along with 2D and 3D transitions
* New JavaScript APIs: enabling features such as geolocation.
* Widget enhancements: designed to improve the application user experience.
Raj Koneru, CEO of Kony, said: “At Kony, we believe the future includes native, mobile web, and HTML5 hybrid or ‘mixed mode’ applications. Using the KonyOne platform, developers are able to use a single code base to create optimised applications for any device, operating system or browser.
