iOS and Android Apps with HTML & JavaScript - develop, build and deploy - free and open source!

With App Framework, you could spend your time for your next amazing App and not for the tricky stuff around!

Setup your project:

• Creation of a lightweight and well-organized project folder, ready to publish on GitHub

Design your application:

• Printable template to design your application with paper and pencil
• Templates for your icon design - as PDF for sketching and PPTX for drawing

Develop your application:

• Realize beautiful user interfaces with all well-known components and transitions, based on Framework7
• Easy to maintain single file components with reusable UI elements, based on Vue.js
• One code base for all devices with HTML, CSS and JavaScript - realized with Cordova, supporting ES2015
• Comprehensive icon fonts like FontAwesome, Framework7, Ion and Material Icons out of the box
• Well prepared to use Firebase authentication, realtime database and storage services
• State kept for history, tabs, scroll positions, focus, panels, modals, form inputs and page component data
• Global data object to use the same data and setting across your whole application
• Flexible routing with dynamic, nesting and login protection
• Offline capability, image preloading and multi-language support out of the box

Test your application:

• Integrated code check for correctness and automatic fix for standard conformity
• Local development server with live reload, perfectly to use together with Chrome DevTools
• Test your application on any iOS or Android device with an emulator or on your own device
• Use a development Firebase project with automatic database and storage rule update

Build your application:

• Build process with version bump and compression of all HTML, CSS, JavaScript and image files
• Generation of favicons, touch icons and splash screens out of a single image file
• Phone frame around your application on big screens, so you can offer desktop access with charm
• Automatic build as web application, to be used online and offline in the browser
• Automatic Apple Xcode project build with Cordova
• Automatic Android Studio project build with Cordova
• App Framework builds score very good at performance tests like Google Lighthouse or YSlow

Deploy your application:

• Deployment without downtime
  • to any FTP server as Web App
  • to the Firebase Hosting service as Web App
  • to the Apple App Store as native iOS App
  • to the Google Play Store as native Android App
• Easy rollback solutions

Backup your project:

• Download the Firebase database content and user list to local JSON files
• Snapshot creation of all important project files to backup on any external drive or cloud service