Regarding that i started this series of mobile development tools for medicine , at least i can provide another option for developers in the post #02 in this series .
Titanium mobile
: is an appcelerator.com production among other developer tools and framework to give the power to web developer to create desktop applications with mobile application using his web development knowledge and skills .
Titanium starts as an open source alternative for adobe AIR which runs on Linux , Windows , MacOSX , with poor documented wiki and educational material but with powerful demonstration with screencasts and examples . with xHTML , JS and CSS along with your programming language of choice , you can build very powerful and stable desktop application .
Titanium mobile : as their video demonstration says : you can build a native iPhone application with your web coding skills . which is very easy regarding it saves your time from getting along with objective-C for iPhone SDK .
Appcelerator has some interesting products too as a developer tools : Appcelerator Network and Entourage . which you can find more in their introduction ( videos ) .