Mobile app development industry is growing at rapid pace. Both apps, and technologies to develop them, have improved a way more since early days but, there is still a lot of to be done in cross-platform app development. While we have tools that let us build multiple versions of an app with using the single source code, these tools do not always live up to the expectations. But it is going to change soon…
Why cross-platform
First of all, not all applications can be created using the cross-platform approach. The key is that all organizations first understand their requirements and then evaluate whether they fit the cross-method or not. There are a lot of advantages in cross platform application development including the major – cutting down the costs.
The old understanding
With improvements in app development approaches, many experts began to promise that HTML5 is the best technology for cross-platform app development. HTML5 apps had power to be supported across all platforms. One most popular example set by Facebook in 2012 was to make a hybrid app available for its social site. But hybrid approach began to suffer when Facebook announced that the company would no longer use HTML5 because iOS’ then version didn’t support it. This was the time when many developers realized the limitations of the web technologies.
The new cross-platform wave
But then a new wave of developing tools for cross-platform app began. Soon the technologies and tools hit the market so that organizations could confidently choose one between cross-platform and native approaches.
New tools and theologies solved the issue of distinct UIs in iOS and Android without the need of creating separate apps. The tool like Appcelerator has evolved to level where you can find such functionalities you might not find anywhere else.
Now, mobile app development isn’t as laborious as it used to be five years back. The efficiency and functionalities have improved; the app development has turned easier than ever before. Building app isn’t now a seasoned process in which everything was required to be built from scratch. It has become the core of software development, instead.
Presently you have plenty of options to choose from when it comes to cross-platform app development. It’s easy to decide on or rely on platform once you are clear about your needs. Here are some trending tools these days.
- Xamarin – It provides C# codebase. Also it has code-sharing functionalities on multiple of platforms.
- Kinvey – It’s a backend services to operate in cloud format.
- Xojo – It offers maintenance-free business web hosting services.
- Dropsource – It provides an automated programming service to source the code.
Author bio. :- Sofia is a digital marketing expert in Rapidsoft Technologies, is a ERP software Development Company which provides Software for Retail, Education, Automation, Construction and Finance across the global. She loves to write on latest mobile trends, mobile technologies, startups and enterprises
