All You Need To Know About Cross-Platform Development Tools

It's certainly a difficult thing to select between operating systems like iOS or Android while going for application development especially for corporate needs. However, getting an application separately built for each platform would be a very costly affair. So the best alternative is cross-platform mobile application development. In this process, mobile apps are developed once and are run on all available platforms like Apple, Android, Windows or Blackberry. So, with a single shared code base developers can easily create device independent applications that can run on any mobile platform. It's an affordable approach for the businesses to target various platforms for huge audience base for corporate needs like marketing or sales. Lesser time, costs and efforts are required to develop cross-platform apps that can work really well on any mobile device and hence, enable businesses to expand their reach and promote their business much effectively. Moreover, maintenance costs are also reduced because here one has to maintain and invest only in one application without having to go for multiple apps targeted for various platforms.

So, what does this type of development require? What are the tools that can help developers to create such awesome applications that run seamlessly on all available operating systems and devices? Have you ever thought about it? Here's the answer.

Let us now consider a few important mobile app development tools that are widely used by the mobile app developers for this purpose:

Phonegap

PhoneGap is a popular open source framework that helps mobile developers to build mobile apps for platforms of their choice using standard web APIs. Android, iPhone, Blackberry, Symbian and Palm are the platforms for which a PhoneGap developer can create mobile apps for. Based on the popular technologies like HTML, CSS3, JavaScript and other distributed system technologies, this is just a perfect framework for development of cross-platform apps.

Xamarin

Xamarin is a good technology supporting the development of apps that can run on various platforms. Based on C# technology and sharing the code base with platforms like iOS, Android, Windows and Mac, Xamarin allows for easy and rapid development of platform independent applications that provide high performance and greatly improve user experience. Real time bugs, crash and exceptions can be found and well-managed with this platform.

RhoMobile

RhoMobile is an open source, cross-platform application development framework based on Ruby. Using this highly integrated platform, app developers can build some really awesome native apps for platforms like native apps for Windows Phone, Android, Symbian, RIM and iOS. The framework comes with the comprehensive range of features of mobile gadgets, so developing mobile applications for all types of operating systems becomes a lot easier.

MoSync

Mo-Sync is an easy-to-use open source framework for developing apps for a diverse platforms. The framework supports technologies like C/C++, Python, PHP, JavaScript, Ruby and Java and hence, is a good choice for mobile app development. With MoSync it's really easy to develop native applications no matter what type and category they belong to.

EliteMobileApp.com is a cross platform mobile application development services provider company in USA. We work on diverse technologies and provide our customers with end to end mobile solutions.

By Ronak B