NS Basic is a family of development tools developed and commercially marketed by NSB Corporation in Toronto, Ontario, Canada for iOS, Android, Microsoft Windows, MacOS, Linux, BlackBerry OS, WebOS, Newton OS, Palm OS, Windows CE and Windows Mobile.
NSB Corporation was founded by George Henne in 1993 to provide easy development tools for mobile devices.
The manufacturers and licensors of the operating systems usually supply a C++-based tool aimed at highly skilled professional developers.
Key developers include George Henne, Marcus Darden, James Kruth, Eric Pepke and Dan Rowley.
VoltSigner is a free web service for creating signing certificates, so apps can run on devices and be accepted by Android and iOS stores.
VoltServer is operated as a free service for the developer community by NSB Corporation.
These executables can be augmented with npm native code plugins which extend capabilities far beyond what is possible in Web Apps and PWAs.
The IDE and programming language are modeled on Microsoft's Visual Studio.
PhoneGap, jQuery Mobile, Bootstrap and jQWidgets are fully integrated.
AppStudio can also be used to create Electron apps which run on Windows, MacOS and Linux.
It features an AI Coding Assistant based on ChatGPT, Bootstrap 5 and many other enhancements.