Kony Introduces Visual Design Solution for Designing Mobile App Prototypes

AUSTIN, TX: Kony, a provider of cloud-based enterprise mobility solutions, announces a major update to Kony Visualizer, the visual application design and development solution of Kony’s Mobility Platform.

The new version of the Kony Visualizer 7.0 has prominent update to streamline and accelerate the mobile app development process, enabling users to build powerful connected, omni-channel apps for phone, tablet, web, or connected devices, enables cross-platform mobile app development and also supports IoT capabilities.

The company is offering the solution in two versions: starter edition and enterprise edition. The starter edition is free to download and is open for broad range of users like designers, developers. Users can visually design fully interactive, native mobile apps for their organizations. It also allows them to collaborate with stakeholders across the organization to get immediate feedback on the mobile apps they’ve designed, which creates better alignment between business and IT as part of the innovation process once the user design an app they can move the app to production with the help of enterprise edition which helps to connect the app to back-end services and APIs   and the second one is enterpriseedition.

Features

Integration: Leverage the rich design capabilities of Visualizer and the robust integration capabilities of Mobile Fabric.

API Enhancements: The new version introduces new APIs to enable development of multi-edge applications. Image manipulation APIs enable capturing views as images and manipulations like scaling, blur, compression, cropping and filters.

Cross-platform Design and Development: It provides a visual design environment across all major device and operating systems.

Omni-channel Support: Take advantage of the latest new devices, such as visually building Apple Watch apps, new iOS APIs like WatchKit and HealthKit for connecting to smart devices and wearable’s, Windows 10 Universal Windows Platform (UWP) support and more.

Advanced Security at the Core: It provides new automated protection of Kony apps with automatic Source Code Protection (to protect source code and business logic), Code & Control Flow obfuscation, White Box Cryptography and Binary Protection against static and runtime attacks.
 

“Enterprises are struggling to bridge the gap between business demand for mobile apps and the ability to quickly and effectively deliver them,” says Dave Shirk, president of Products, Strategy and Marketing, Kony, Inc. “With the enhancements we’ve made to the Kony Mobility Platform, we are addressing this issue head-on. Kony Visualizer democratizes the process of mobile app development and enables existing web developers and designers, and those with no background in programming or coding skills, to easily and quickly build rich, innovative mobile apps.  The most exciting part of this announcement is that we have created a fully featured edition of Kony Visualizer and made it available to anyone who wants to experience the power of this product and what it can do for their business.”
 

Kony Visualizer 7.0 is integrated with Kony MobileFabric 7.0, the industry’s leading mobile middleware (mobile backend as a service MBaaS) offering, together, Kony Visualizer 7.0 and Kony MobileFabric 7.0 deliver the highest levels of speed and productivity through low-code tools, simplifying the process of building microservice-based mobile applications.