Mobile usage continues to grow year after year. Many tech experts believe that mobile usage will surpass desktop usage in the near future. Due to this growth, mobile apps have become a big market. There are many great tools that a mobile developer can use to help in the creation of mobile apps. Let’s take a look at a few solid tools for app developers.

AppMakr

AppMakr is a do-it-yourself app creation platform that lets anyone make your own iPhone apps, Android apps and HTML5 mobile formatted websites —with no coding required. Even if you already know how to code, this tool can come in handy if you need to create a pretty basic app very quickly. It also works cross-platform, so with one tool, you can create an app for both iOS and Android. You can find out more at AppMakr’s website.

Shinobi Controls

Shinobi Controls is great for anyone who needs to create great looking Android or iOS Charts and Grids for their app. If you are an app developer, you know that creating great looking charts can be really tough to do, especially in the mobile environment. With Shinobi Controls, you get great looking and highly interactive representations of your data. It is also quite easy to integrate their charts or grids into your app. You can find out more at Shinobi Controls’ website.

Xamarin MonoTouch and Mono

This is a cool app for anyone who already knows C#. Xamarin MonoTouch and Mono essentially let you create apps for iOS and Android by writing C# code. This is great for anyone with C# experience for multiple reasons. First, if you haven’t written any code for iOS/Android, this gives you a quick way to create an app without having to learn a new language. Second, if you have any existing code or libraries already written, you can use them in your app development as well. This can really save you time while at the same point allowing you to keep your code consistent in multiple places. For example, you could use the same block of code in your app that you used on your website. Click here to find out more.

Crittercism

It is inevitable that your app is going to error or crash at some point. Crittercism is a tool that allows you to better understand any problems your app may be having. With this tool, you can receive real-time crash and error reporting and live analytics. It will help you to pinpoint the exact line of code causing the problem. This can make it much easier to debug any issues that might come up during development or even after launch. Overall, a great tool that can really save you some time digging through code.