Mobile App Development Tool - AppMakr

Everyone is looking for an easy way to create mobile apps. While app development frameworks have their limitations and may not work in all scenarios, AppMakr is a platform that will help you quickly build a mobile app, test it and submit it to the app store, in days instead of weeks and months. Here are some reasons why you should check it out -

• App icons and splash screen - Searches your site and public content and provides you with icons and splash screens that can be used.
• Support for rss and media feeds - Great way to make your blog and media available on mobile devices. 
• Post Message tab - This is a great feature to capture leads from your mobile apps. This will let your app users contact you.
• HTML/Phonegap -If you think feeds are too simple and will not work for your app, think again. With a html container feature you can redirect the user to a mobile friendly site or use phonegap to create richer applications.
• Push notifications - Another neat feature provided is to send push notifications to app users. 

Beyond the features and functions, there are some other things worth considering which differentiates AppMakr from some of the other development platforms -

• Simulator - The iphone simulator provides a nice way to test the application before deploying it on an actual device. When we build our iphone app for reviewing appmakr we found the simulator very useful during development.
• Image searches for app icon and splash screen - This provides a great way to show content from the website. AppMakr has done a great job providing developers with existing content that is publicly available to make their apps richer.
• Build process - Again a very useful tool when you are testing or building the app on a real device. Makes it easy to rebuild and redeploy.
• Documentation - We found the documentation extremely useful. For novice iphone developers this is invaluable since there are 18-20 steps to build an app for ad hoc provisioning on iOS.
• Monetization  - The paid version ($79/app/month) provides the ability to create an ad-free app or you can provide your own ad service and claim the revenue.

More details on the iphone app that we developed to test appmakr-

• Marketing app with feeds, screenshots, contact us and a html container that redirects to a mobile friendly website
• App icon and splashscreens - We used the ones appmakr searched for us
• We used the itunes app install for testing a few times and then used over the air app drop feature for subsequent testing
• We had apple developer accounts / device ids etc already configured
• Created an app banner using bannerfans
• iOS developer with 1 year development experience was able to create the app and publish it to app store in 2 days!

Check out more details at www.appmakr.com.

See comparison between free and paid versions here.