Building enterprise mobile applications

A non-transitory computer readable storage medium tangibly storing instructions, which when executed by a computer, cause the computer to execute operations comprising:

• receive, at a mobile application development framework, a mobile application development project package comprising a plurality of plugins to access respective native applications of a type of mobile device, a plurality of graphical user interface elements and a plurality of common functionalities;
• receive, at the mobile application development framework, a request to build an enterprise mobile application for the type of mobile device and associated with an enterprise application;
• receive, at the mobile application development framework, a user selection of at least one plugin from the plurality of plugins, one or more graphical user elements from the plurality of graphical user elements and at least one common functionality from the plurality of common functionalities;
• and
• automatically integrate, at the mobile application development framework, functionalities of the enterprise application, the selected at least one plugin, the selected one or more graphical user elements and the selected at least one common functionality, to build the enterprise mobile application.

A computer implemented method, comprising:

• generating a mobile application development project package comprising a plurality of plugins to access respective native applications of a type of mobile device, a plurality of graphical user interface elements and a plurality of common functionalities;
• receiving, at a mobile application development framework, a request to build an enterprise mobile application associated with an enterprise application;
• receiving, at the mobile application development framework, a selection of at least one plugin from the plurality of plugins, one or more graphical user elements from the plurality of graphical user elements and at least one common functionality from the plurality of common functionalities;
• and
• building an enterprise mobile application for the type of mobile device by automatically integrating, at the mobile application development framework, functionalities of the enterprise application, the selected at least one plugin, the selected one or more graphical user elements and the selected at least one common functionality.