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General Information

Websiteappmobi.com
Twitter@appMobi
CategoryMobile/Wireless
Phone717-666-3151
Email
Employees28
Founded1/06
DescriptionMobile HTML5 Infrastructure

Offices

Headquarters
35-37 East Orange St.
Lancaster, PA, 17602
USA

People

Former People

VP Business Development
Business Development

Acquisitions

TapJS, 6/11

Funding

TOTAL $8.1M
VENTURE FUNDING TOTAL $8.1M
Series B, 7/09
$2.1M
Series B, 1/11
$6M

Competitors

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appMobi

appMobi is a leading vendor of HTML5 mobile development and deployment tools and services. The company has focused on products that advance the mobile market’s shift from proprietary native tools and services to industry standards HTML5, CSS3 and Javascript.

While the emerging HTML5 standard offers the mobile industry ease of app development and freedom from fragmentation, it lacks a number of key features that drove Apple’s rapid ascent to market leader. appMobi’s mission is to provide the missing features that will allow HTML5 to compete and win against proprietary solutions. Specifically, these features include an HTML5 development, debugging, and build system, user authentication, ‘touch to buy’ , push notifications, user analytics, and on-device app updates. appMobi has created best-of-breed solutions for each of these issues.

appMobi’s XDK (cross platform development kit) allows developers to use HTML5 technology to create fully functional mobile apps that run across different hardware platforms, including Android and iOs. Additionally, the XDK can render the exact same code as a ‘web app’ or an ‘enhanced’ web app that performs exactly the same as a native app. In August 2011, appMobi made the XDK available as a plugin for the Google Chrome browser, offering developers an extremely easy to use tool stack for HTML5.

In February, 2011, appMobi announced its MobiUs web browser, which allows HTML5 web apps to perform exactly the same native functions as native apps, through the use of appMobi’s JavaScript “bridge”. The MobiUs browser allows app developers to choose their method of distribution, either the convential app stores, or to distribute through the web, retaining full control and monetization. The iOS implementation of mobiUs became available in August 2011 in the Apple App Store, and it was released as open source in October, 2011. An Android version of mobiUs will be released in 2Q2012.

In the fall of 2011, appMobi released the PhoneGap XDK (A PhoneGap-specific version of its development/debug tool), and the Impact GameDev XDK (which supports HTML5 game development with the ImpactJS game engine).

In December, 2011, appMobi released its directCanvas technology as open source. directCanvas speeds HTML5 game screen rendering by as much as 18x, delivering “native” game performance to games written with HTML5. Also in December, ReadWriteWeb named appMobi as the “Most Promising Company for 2012”.

On February 13, 2012, appMobi announced playMobi, a HTML5 game development API that provides in-app purchasing, analytics, and social engagement tools that supports iOS, Android, Facebook and Open Web with a single code base.

March 12, 2012, appMobi released version 1.0 of jqMobi, an open source jQuery-like JavaScript framework that is highly optimized for delivering an identical user experience on Android and iOs HTML5 mobile apps.

Milestones

Videos

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jQ.Mobi HTML5 Optimized jQuery

Added: 1/18/12
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Easily Create Mobile Physics-based Games like “Angry Birds” with HTML5 using appMobi & ImpactJS

Added: 12/28/11
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An interview with appMobi Founder and CTO Sam Abadir (Aug 2010)

Added: 12/28/11

Screenshots

appMobi screenshot
Above: XDK HTML5 Development Tool
Uploaded: 8/8/11
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Products

1Touch Secure Digital Wallet
appMobi XDK
pushMobi
statMobi

Sources

  1. appMobi Acquires Hosting Platform; Launches Tech To Speed Up HTML5 In Mobile Gaming (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  2. FlyCast Raises $2.1 Million For Mobile Radio (paidcontent.org) [edit]
  3. appMobi Closes $6M To Improve Platform (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  4. JQ.Mobi Is A Mobile-Optimized HTML5 Rewrite Of the JQuery Framework (readwriteweb.com) [edit]
    appMobi Optimizes HTML5 for Mobile Game Development (html5.tmcnet.com) [edit]
    2 New HTML5 Frameworks for Building Mobile Apps (readwriteweb.com) [edit]
    appMobi Offers mCommerce Security Solution (mobilemarketingmagazine.com) [edit]
    AppMobi Continues to Bolster HTML5 Toolkit, Releases Chrome App Packager (readwriteweb.com) [edit]
    appMobi, ImpactJS Release Visual Toolkit for HTML5 Mobile Game Development (html5.tmcnet.com) [edit]
    appMobi launches PhoneGap mobile app XDK (intomobile.com) [edit]
    appMobi Launches mobiUs Web Browser (fiercemobilecontent.com) [edit]
    AppMobi open-sources its mobile HTML5 technology (gigaom.com) [edit]
    ReadWriteWeb's Most Promising Company For 2012 (readwriteweb.com) [edit]
    appMobi's directCanvas Powers 10X HTML5 Game Acceleration, Multichannel Sound (marketwatch.com) [edit]
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