Mobile development tools and cross-platform solutions

The usage of tablet and mobile devices has growing potencial. The fragmented mobile landscape presents considerable challenges around application development. The key element for publishing software applications in Apple's iOS or Google's Android operating system is to build them with software development kit. HTML5 web apps are emerging as an alternative. This paper deals with available frameworks, cross-platform solutions, mobile development tools, summary of mechanical engineering apps and development of mobile dictionary of the English-Czech automatic control terms.