I recently wrote a report for University on mobile development. The question I posed was;
"Will mobile application development continue to be lucrative in a market with increasing emphasis on cloud and web based services?".

I have been working a great deal with mobile technologies and I feel I have gained some insight into the direction is which the industry is heading.
If you have time, give my article a read. It is essentially a web-app and can be found at the link below, where it can also be downloaded as an Android application.

http://www.ivings.org.uk/projects/mobile/

The site uses jQuery Mobile to render the pages. This is an amazing tool, though still in Beta. I converted it into an Android Application using PhoneGap. Information about both these technologies can be found within the report.

I’ve recently been working on Mobile Development, both at work and at home.
In doing so I discovered an excellent tool called PhoneGap that I want to share with everyone.
PhoneGap allows you to code your application in simple web technologies, rather than the complex native languages such as Java or Objective-C.

I recently created a presentation diving into the pros and cons of this type of web-app development for my company. The first half of the document explains the concept behind PhoneGap, I then go on to explain boring parts of development for each platform;