You want to engage your customers and employees using mobile devices. You are ready to turn your ideas into mobile apps that will benefit your business. But first, you need your developers on-board. All it takes is the right tools for them to leverage their current skills and put them to use developing mobile apps.

Thanks to cloud app platforms, developers can now build logic and data integration components there. This way, most of the code is device independent and executes in the cloud, and you don’t need to worry about them being stuck maintaining software or integrating systems. In addition, less time and resources are spent on device customization, so multiple devices can be supported simply.

Here are the cloud platform services that make it easy to turn any developer into a mobile app developer.

Mobile REST APIs

This feature lets developers use standard web protocols to call up enterprise data and services. They can also enforce access, security, and common policy across all device types.

Social REST APIs

These allow developers to quickly transform and evolve apps using things like social feeds and collaboration features.

Mobile Policy Management

Security on mobile apps is vital. Using cloud platform services, developers can enforce protection with features like 2-factor authorization, device PIN protection, and password rotation. They also have the ability to enable or disable user access.

Geo-Location

Developers can enhance the apps they build with location-based information.

An Enterprise Mobile Container

Using this, developers can add enterprise grade features, including secure offline storage and OAuth 2.0 authentication. These also allow for data storage on devices to be securely encrypted.

Native Device Services

A simple way to boost your app functions is to use native device features, like the camera, location services and contacts. Developers can work with a common set of APIs to easily access native features, as well as corporate data, using a basic JavaScript code.

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