A method of enabling content distribution for various electronic devices which comprises providing a content adaptive application for an electronic device, wherein the content adaptive application is designed to parse an abstraction schema to retrieve data or a data source, and format information. The content adaptive application further formats the data or data from the data source into at least one of a plurality of platform specific templates specified by the format information and displays at least one platform specific template including at least a portion of the data or data from the data source on a display of the electronic device.