The StackMob mobile app platform that allows developers to create feature-rich apps across a range of mobile platforms has moved out of private beta to become available to all developers.

StackMob uses REST API and JavaScript Object Notation technology to allow developers to build apps for any mobile platform and avoid using fragmented SDKs, which generate complicated code. Appcelerator’s Titanium offers similar cross-platform capability.
StackMob CEO Ty Amell – who started the company with Software Engineer Will Palmeri at the beginning of 2010 – wrote on the company blog that the pair wanted to focus on lowering the barriers to mobile development.

“We weren’t going to settle for the complex, disorganised and often broken tools that were currently available. Make it simple. Make it powerful. Make it reliable. This is how the idea of StackMob came to life,” he wrote. He added that StackMob will take care of the back-end technology so developers can focus on developing the user experiences.

The company aims to avoid platform lock-in and allows developers to have complete access to their data, with data never aggregated across developers using the platform.

Since StackMob secured Series A funding in May this year it has seen a 60 percent increase in developers using the private beta of the platform, including independent and Fortune 50 organisations.