Abstract: A cloud-based web platform providing for creating and managing native smartphone and tablet software applications for devices of different platforms based on a unified mobile specification is disclosed. The platform comprises a mobile application builder for creating, maintaining and editing a mobile application specification. The platform further comprises a mobile application engine for automatic compiling native mobile applications based on the mobile application specification. The platform further comprises a mobile application manager for delivering or deploying the native mobile applications to selected client devices and managing a workflow of the one or more native mobile applications.

Abstract: A method for rendering native mobile applications is disclosed. The method includes maintaining, by a computing device with one or more processors and a memory, a mobile application specification, a plurality of plug-in specifications, each of the plug-in specifications being associated with at least one first enterprise backend resource or enterprise service, and a plurality of widget specifications, each of the widget specifications being associated with at least one second enterprise backend resource or enterprise service. The method selectively integrates at least one of the plug-in specifications or at least one of the widget specifications into the mobile application specification. The method further compiles one or more native mobile applications based at least in part on the mobile application specification, and sends the one or more native mobile applications to one or more client devices.

Abstract: A method for synthesizing mobile applications is provided. The method includes receiving a mobile application specification and compiling a first native mobile application based at least in part on the mobile application specification. A second native mobile application is then compiled based at least in part on the mobile application specification. The first native mobile application is sent to a first client device. The first native mobile application is specific to the first client device and the first native mobile application is capable of being executed by the first client device. The second native mobile application is sent to a second client device, the second native mobile application being specific to the second client device and the second native mobile application is capable of being executed by the second client device.