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Have you ever noticed the huge number of mobile apps? Today there are apps for everything: games, social media, apps for exercising, for tracking your menstrual cycle, ordering food, following the news and more ...
And so as a software engineer I find it essential to be able to create smartphone applications and fortunately today there are a lot of tools that allow you to do that.

Why are mobile apps important ?

Developing a mobile application is an excellent way to strengthen your brand image, increase a company’s visibility and differentiate yourself from the competition.
Thanks to mobile apps, everything is accessible at your fingertips: Info, utilities, services, showcases, offers, notifications, communities, and much more!

So what are you waiting for to dive in!

Tools for non-coders

If you don't like coding and want to create your mobile app, here is a list of tools for you:

Non-exhaustive list

Uizard
BuildFire
Swiftic
Appsbuilder
Glide Apps

To find out more and better understand these tools, here are some useful links.
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La fabrique du net ( #fr )

Codeur (#fr)

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Mashable ( #Eng )

Later on,I would do several articles on these interfaces and in particular on Glide Apps.

Tools for developers

For the people who are fond of programming like me, there are also a lot of work environments and Frameworks that are amazing when it comes to developing mobile apps. And these are actually the tools that I want to focus on for the developers.
Today I intend to give you a quick overview , but I hope to write more detailed articles on some of these softwares in the future.
So without further ado, here are some tools that allow you to develop mobile applications:

Non-exhaustive list of tools for creating mobile applications for developers

Android Studio

React Native

Flutter

First, I would like to present to you the famous Android Studio.
Android Studio allows you to develop applications for android phones, Android tablets, Android Wear, Android TV and Android Auto. Android Studio mainly uses Java for the backend and xml for the user interface, but you can work with other languages like Python or C and C ++.

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React Native is a framework that allows you to create mobile applications in JavaScript. This framework was created by Facebook and is used to develop applications for Android, iOS and UWP by enabling developers to use React with the native functionality of these platforms.

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The Flutter Framework is also very interesting for creating mobile applications for android but also for iOS. Flutter is a framework developed by Google, the most recent of all. It mainly uses Dart language but a new flutter plugin project supports flutter to interact with other scripting languages like python, java, ruby, golang, rust, etc.

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I hope this article has made you want to learn more about developing mobile applications. I am looking forward to sharing with you some of my knowledge, best tutorials and tips.