Mophun, a product of Synergenix Interactive, is an environment for developing Mobile-Phone Games and Applications. The games are developed in the C

C (programming language)

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 and C++

C++

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 programming language

Programming language

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s using an open source

Open source

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 SDK

Software development kit

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 available upon request from the website. A compiler translates the projects into a system independent application. There are no freeware

Freeware

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 Mophun applications available because any applications need to be certified before they are allowed to run on a compatible device.

Mophun was the brainchild of Antony Hartley and was developed by Hartley and Anders Norlander. Antony Hartley since moved on to form Mobile Sorcery, a company that specializes in visual mobile authoring.

External links

• Mophun - inactive as of 2011/08/12nooldu
• MoSync
  MoSync
  MoSync is an OS-independent virtual platform and software development kit for mobile applications. It is integrated with the Eclipse development environment, and is provided as a cross-platform mobile development SDK under the GPL version 2 license....
  
  - The creator's new company.