Cross-platform mobile app development allows speeding up the development process and reducing costs. These two main advantages make this area extremely popular, ensuring its continuous growth in recent years.
The target audience, interesting for almost any business, is available on several platforms at once, and not all companies are able to allocate their resources to create native apps for each of them separately.
Cross-platform development tools allow creating apps for multiple mobile platforms at once. When writing code, third-party programming languages are used, and in the end, the code is compiled into a native app for each OS.
In this article, we will talk about the best cross-platform mobile app development tools that you can use for solving your problems.
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PhoneGap (Apache Cordova)
Apache Cordova-based open-source framework allows you to create platform-independent mobile apps based on web technologies using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. This tool is best qualified for creating apps with functionality requiring no intensive use of the device capabilities.
PhoneGap has functions that allow speeding up build and debug cycles due to interaction with other development team members. The compilation is conducted in the cloud. SDK is available for each of the platforms, and the tool itself is easy to master even for beginners.
Xamarin
This is a cross-platform tool, supported and developed by Microsoft. Using it, you can create software for both mobile and desktop operating systems. The tool utilizes the C# programming language.
Xamarin is a good choice if you need to create a relatively simple application. A good set of features for user interface design is also available, and you can reuse up to 70% of the code when adapting an app to another platform.
The developers can test the functionality and performance, using virtual devices, which allows them to make sure that everything works the way it should and achieve seamless integration.
NativeScript
This is an open-source framework allowing you to create native apps for Android and iOS, using the same code. Angular, Vue.js, TypeScript, or JavaScript support allows you to use many different available libraries.
NativeScript provides developers with direct access to the native API, offers a good set of components, and simplifies the work with the user interface. The framework currently has some disadvantages, like an insufficient amount of documentation and examples for all available framework functions.
Ionic
This is a popular cross-platform tool being developed since 2013, and a large community has shaped around this platform since then. Developers have access to more than a hundred different available design and functional elements, as well as a library of components and plugins.
Ionic Appflow comprises the entire mobile development lifecycle — from an automated build process to real-time updates and CI/CD. Using Ionic, developers can quickly create powerful and nice apps for iOS, Android, Electron, and PWA.
React Native
Created by Facebook in 2015 within just a few years, React Native has become one of the most popular cross-platform frameworks on the market. It allows creating apps, using JavaScript without sacrificing user experience or performance.
Almost all Android and iOS components have their own counterparts in React Native. All these components are compiled directly into native apps and, thus, allow developers to maintain the platform’s physical appearance.
Qt
This is a cross-platform development tool operating as a subscription model service with a free trial. It utilizes C++ for writing app code and allows its subsequent export to various platforms. Developers can test the product on various device models, using a virtual emulator.
Having exported the code, developers can make changes, if necessary, to apps on different platforms, using the Qt interface, and they will be applied to them automatically. Interface simplicity and convenience are among the advantages of this tool for developers.
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Unity3D
This is a cross-platform tool focused on game development, which allows you to export the result to two dozen platforms. The Unity3D engine is very popular due to its high-quality graphics, as well as a large community of developers and experts.
Besides, Unity3D offers tools allowing developers to analyze user activity and arrange app distribution on social networks.
Cross-platform development provides businesses with several important advantages: development time reduction, budget reduction, and the possibility to expand the targeted audience outreach by ensuring their presence on all the necessary operating systems. These advantages make cross-platform development tools more and more popular with time, and that stimulates their further development.
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