App Framework

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!

Features

Setup your project:

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

Design your application:

Develop your application:s

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