DecSoft App Builder

DecSoft App Builder is a professional visual development environment for creating HTML5 applications, web apps, progressive web apps, web extensions, and hybrid applications for modern mobile and desktop browsers, as well as for platforms like Google Android, Apple iOS, and Microsoft Windows.

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• Visual development environment. DecSoft App Builder provides a visual design environment where developers can create user interfaces by dragging and dropping components. The interface shows an accurate representation of how the application will look on different devices and orientations.
• Cross-platform development. The tool allows you to compile the same codebase for multiple platforms, including Android, iOS, Windows, Web, and browser extensions. This eliminates the need to maintain separate codebases for each target system.
• Integrated Monaco code editor. The environment incorporates Microsoft's Monaco code editor, which offers syntax highlighting, intelligent autocompletion, and code navigation. The editor supports HTML, CSS, and JavaScript with specific assistance for the framework's APIs.
• Application file manager. Developers can manage all application resources through an integrated file system. This includes the ability to add JavaScript scripts, CSS stylesheets, images, and other resources necessary for the application's operation.
• Integrated JavaScript framework. App Builder includes its own JavaScript framework that provides predefined methods and properties for managing views, dialogs, events, and data storage. This framework optimizes the performance of the resulting applications.
• Theming and styling system. The tool offers a set of predefined themes and allows for creating custom styles for interface components. Styles are applied consistently across all views and components of the application.
• Responsive interface builder. The design system allows for creating interfaces that automatically adapt to different screen sizes and orientations. Developers can define specific behaviors for mobile devices, tablets, and desktops.
• Integration with Apache Cordova. App Builder automatically generates the necessary Cordova projects to compile native applications. It includes support for official Cordova plugins and management of platform-specific configurations.
• Translation manager. The internationalization system allows defining multiple languages for the application and switching between them at runtime. All text strings are externalized to facilitate their translation.
• Integrated device simulator. Developers can preview their applications in a simulator that emulates different devices, resolutions, and hardware features. The simulator allows testing applications under various conditions.
• CSS preprocessing system. The tool includes CSS preprocessing capabilities that allow using variables, mixins, and functions in stylesheets. This improves the maintainability and visual consistency of applications.
• Optimized code generation. App Builder produces optimized and minified HTML, CSS, and JavaScript code for production. The build process removes unused code and reduces resource size.
• Debugging and testing. The environment provides tools for debugging applications during development, including an error console, element inspection, and performance monitoring. Applications can be tested directly within the environment.
• Project export. Developers can export their projects in various formats depending on the target platform, including packages ready for publication in application stores or deployment on web servers.

DecSoft App Builder was created by DecSoft, a Spanish software development company founded by José Domingo Muñoz. Development began in 2015 as a tool to simplify the creation of cross-platform HTML5 applications. The application is primarily written in Delphi/Object Pascal, using native components for the user interface and generating standard HTML5/CSS/JavaScript code for the resulting applications.

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