1. A method, comprising: receiving, at a computer, a request to build a new application developed using an application development framework; receiving, by the computer, a template application, the template application comprising one or more binary artifacts and declarative information, the template application being pre-compiled using a build toolkit; modifying, by the computer, the declarative information associated with the template application using metadata associated with the new application to generate modified declarative information, the metadata configuring one or more components included in the new application, and the modifying comprising replacing a first set of definition files associated with the template application with a second set of definition files associated with the new application; and building, by the computer, the new application to target a mobile device using the one or more binary artifacts of the template application and the modified declarative information, wherein modifying, by the computer, the declarative information associated with the template application using the metadata associated with the new application comprises modifying a reference to the declarative information to include a reference to declarative information associated with one or more portions of the new application.