FlyCast launched an open source library of demonstration mobile apps that were created with HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript. The main idea, according to the press release, is to demonstrate how new web technologies can be used to create compelling mobile experiences.
FlyCast touts the so called appMobi as a “cross-platform rapid mobile app development and deployment ecosystem,” offering developers ability to make apps once using standard web technologies and then deploy to a variety of devices and operating systems, including the iPhone (iOS) and Android. As far as I’ve understood, there is some sort of a compiler included as FlyCast says that apps made with appMobi are native and fully compliant with Apple’s SDK 4.0 terms of service.
Speaking of SDK 4.0, appMobi will allow background streaming of music (that will be supported with iOS 4.0) and is thus ideal for creating radio station apps.
The solution/service is cloud-based and is offered with scalable pay-as-you-go development and deployment tools, Amazon AWS edge-caching servers for hosted application deployment, PhoneGap support, analytics, in-app payments, and advertising. The source code is already available and is offered under the MIT open source license.