System and Method of Generating Applications for Mobile Devices

A system and method for transforming a reference application written for a reference mobile device into a target application for a target mobile device is disclosed. The system includes: a) transforms and metadata associated with each transform, where the transform includes instructions to modify a portion of the reference application and the metadata includes at least one of device-specific information and application-specific information; b) a plug-in containing links to a selected portion of the transforms, where the selected portion of the transforms is selected using the metadata; and c) a transformation engine which communicates with the with the plug-in to execute the instructions in each of the transforms in the selected portion.