Features

Icenium leverages Apache Cordova (aka PhoneGap) so you can write an application using HTML, JavaScript & CSS and run it as a natively-installed application on supported mobile device. Codova is effectively a container for a web application that allows your JavaScript to access certain native device APIs. Interested in learning more about Cordova and PhoneGap? Check out Demystifying Cordova and PhoneGap.

We wanted to implement an iterative approach to app development nearly identical to the approach used in web development. If you’re already used to working in a code editor and a browser and seeing your changes as you make them, we thought, “Why reinvent the wheel?”

Icenium LiveSync provides a connection to your app as it's running on one or more physical devices and enables you to see changes made in real-time without having to recompile. 

The Icenium cloud services manage all the platform dependencies for you so you can focus on development. There is no need to download, configure, and manage multiple development environments and numerous SDKs. Icenium handles it all for you in the cloud.

 

When it’s time to create an application package that can be deployed to a device or one of the app stores, the Icenium Cloud Services will compile your content into a native wrapper for you. 

Icenium was built with the vision that hybrid mobile apps could be developed using a lightweight, cloud-based tool-set that’s always on and available everywhere. Using Icenium Mist—the browser-based coding environment—you can work from any Internet-connected computer without having to install a thing.

Integrated version control means your code is safely stored and versioned in the cloud, remaining accessible to you anywhere, at any time. Support for GitHub and other URL-based Git repositories makes collaborating on your project a breeze, regardless of how geographically distributed your team is.

Iterate quickly on your design with the integrated device simulator to see how your mobile application looks and feels without ever having to deploy to a physical device. The Icenium Device Simulator enables you to test the behavior of a hybrid app across multiple platforms and form factors. The debugger interacts with your code and has views for elements, resources, and the console. That means you can view and modify the DOM, see console messages, and much more.

Icenium Ion makes deploying and testing your hybrid mobile apps on any iOS device a snap, by eliminating the need to provision them. Simply install Ion (available in the AppStore), scan the QR code shown on the screen when you run a project, and in seconds the application is installed and running inside Ion. Making changes? Simply press three fingers to the screen of the iOS device and the app will fetch the changes and update itself.

Publishing to the Apple App Store or Google Play broadens your reach to more users, but can also be a hassle. Not with Icenium. With built-in support for preparing your project for publishing, the headache of dealing with the App Store and Play is gone. Icenium provides the guidance and assistance to make publishing your app as simple as it was to build it.