Kony Studio is an integrated development environment (IDE) for rapid development and deployment of mobile applications. It is provided as a plug-in to Eclipse, an open-source environment. The primary element of Kony Studio is a visual developer panel that is used to design the application forms in a device independent wireframe format. These forms are then populated with widgets made available by the Kony client libraries included across all mobile operating systems. The Kony client libraries also include support for platform- specific properties, allowing a developer to take advantage of the full capability of the underlying OS of various devices without resorting to the lowest common denominator. A developer can also render widgets only on specific devices, allowing for customized interfaces and skins that optimize the capabilities and look and feel of each device operating system. A resource model allows for static resources such as images, videos and sounds.

Back-end data integration is also simplified using the Kony platform. Developers need not move or copy existing data in order to create a mobile application. Instead, Kony is able to communicate directly and securely with a client’s current data system, writing this data connection once and then applying it to all devices, further speeding up time to market. Kony Studio supports multiple classes of markup generation based on device capabilities, and devices may receive WML, cHTML or a combination of XHTML, CSS and JavaScript based on the capabilities detected at run-time. Kony Studio also has a built-in SMS editor for enabling and setting SMS keywords, including the input and output parameters.

Kony Studio also enables rapid testing of these applications in device emulators from all major manufacturers. These emulators are available via an emulator panel in the IDE.

NOTE: Visual screenshot here of Kony Studio