Crack The Limit of App Development With

Cross-Platform

Why Cross-Platform ? Before the introduction of cross-platform mobile development first you have to know

why to choose cross-platform for your mobile app development, there was a major

drawback in the mobile app industry. The application developed using the Android

platform did not suit the iPhone smartphone. Likewise, the application developed with

the help of MAC OS did not fit into the Android-based smartphone. This issue was

considered as a major drawback in the mobile apps development industry. The cross-

platform mobile development serves as a solution to the above problem.

About Cross-Platform Cross-platform application development offer an excellent alternative to ignoring one mobile

OS in favor of another or, developing different version of apps for 2-3 platforms. Apart from

users, developers are likewise in enormous situation which platform ought to be adopted.

Doubtlessly, there is many OS, for example Symbian, Android, iPhone, iPad, Blackberry and

Windows Mobile accessible with no end of engineering. mobile applications that are

compatible with all browsers and platform and in this way boosting the scope in the cross-

platform mobile application development era.

Benefits of Cross-Platform The best cross-platform technologies come loaded with several innovative features

and APIs that simplify the task of developing apps for mobile. While the developers

need to work harder to get the coding right, the end result is fantastic. The code can be

used to create native apps for different mobile platforms. This saves a lot of time, cuts

down several costs associated with mobile development, and enables you to reach

most smartphone users in the world.

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Using cross development, mobile app developers can:

• Build powerful and compatible apps with less effort 

• Integrate third-party APIs with ease

• Use Ajax, JavaScript and other languages for mobile development 

• Customize apps for Android and iPhone 

• Provide flexibility to the apps

• Cuts down several costs associated with mobile development

• Cross-platform compatibility and as web apps do not have to go through the

distribution process of app stores, they reach more people as they are easily

searchable.

Native vs. Hybrid vs. Web AppNative

The native approach uses a fast and reliable programming language but each language is tied

to one specific platform. If you want a native app on iPhone and Android the code must be

adjusted to meet each platform's standards.Hybrid

It is a native app embedded with HTML and lets you enjoy the benefits of a native app

while ensuring it stays up to date with the latest web technologies. The Facebook app is an

example of a hybrid appWeb App

This is a mobile website designed to work across all platforms. Its obvious advantage is

cross-platform compatibility and as web apps do not have to go through the distribution

process of app stores, they reach more people as they are easily searchable.

Cross-Platform MAD Tools Appcelerator Titanium

Appcelerator Titanium utilizes JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3, PHP, Ruby, and Python

to create applications that run on iOS and Android, and compiles to native code.

Titanium Mobile SDK comes with its own IDE. Titanium Studio is an eclipse like

IDE which is used to write and test applications together with and Android Emulator.

Appcelerator titanium supports database, media, geolocation, contacts, notification

and many other native features of a smartphone.

PhoneGap

PhoneGap is a cross platform mobile applications development tool. It uses

HTML5,JavaScript and CSS3 web technologies to develop cross platform mobile

applications that exploit native features of a mobile device. PhoneGap uses JQuery

JavaScript library in its development framework and made it easier to build JQuery

Base mobile apps to native feature accessing applications. It supports accelerometer,

camera, compass, contacts, geolocation, media, network, notification (alert, sound,

vibration) and storage.

Xamarin

Xamarin is a commercial cross platform mobile applications development tool.

Xamarin enables to develop applications for iOS and Android using .NET framework

and C# programming language. Xamarin IDE comes as MonoDevelop for android

and as a Visual Studio plug-in component for windows and Mac OSX and as

monotouch for Mac OSX only.

Rhombile

Rhomobile is a Motorola Solutions owned company that brought a cross platform

mobile applications development tool that relies on Model-View-Controller(MVC)

system architecture of programming applications using HTML, CSS and JavaScript and

Ruby. Rhomobile supports iOS, RIM, Windows Mobile and Android. The Rhomobile

development tool comes with three integrated tools. Those are Rhodes, RhoConnect,

RhoHub and RhoGallery.

MoSync

MoSync is an open source cross platform mobile applications development tool. It

enables one to develop native like cross platform mobile applications using C/C++,

HTML5 and JavaScript. Using MoSync, a developer can develop an application

using a single codebase but target multiple platforms. MoSync supports iOS,

Android, RIM, JavaME, Symbian, and Windows Phone.

IBM Worklight

Worklight is a proprietary cross platform mobile applications development tool. It is used

to develop mobile web apps or abstraction based mobile apps using HTML5,CSS3 and

JavaScript. Like Rhomobile, the main focus of Worklight is enterprise applications with

backend systems like servers and databases.

Corona

Corona is a cross platform mobile applications development tool that is used to author

games and apps. Mobile applications development in Corona are written using the

programming language Lua. The Lua code is compiled into an intermediate bytecode

for a native runtime abstraction.

Marmalade

Marmalade is a cross platform mobile applications development tool that follows

either abstraction-based or native compiling style of cross platform mobile

applications development. Marmalade is most suitable to develop rich HTML5 apps

and cross platform and high performance 2D and 3D games using C++.

Adobe Air

Adobe Air is a runtime based cross platform mobile applications development tool. It

uses HTML, JavaScript, ActionScript, Flex, Adobe Flash Professional, and Adobe

Flash Builder for development of mobile applications that run on platforms and

devices of Android, BlackBerry, iOS devices, and personal computers.

Sencha Touch

Web developers prefer using Sencha Touch to build interactive application UI with

the help of JavaScript library together with the combination of HTML5 and CSS3.

With this framework, programmers can comfortably and swiftly develop apps that

could run perfectly on the devices supported by Android, iOS and BB. 

Conclusion

The cross platform development technological ground is constantly shifting with each

tool introducing new functionalities every time making what holds three months from

now fairly unpredictable. Cross platform development is an actively developing young

technology. It could be sometime before the dust settles and a tools comes out as a

winner. Considering each tool based on its merit for a mobile application need and

target audience seems the only sensible option available right now.

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