Thursday, August 9, 2018

Craze of Cross Platform Mobile App Development

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Craze of Cross Platform Mobile App Development
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The concept of cross platform mobile app development has rocked the mobile app market like never before. Not many years ago the projects related to android app development and iOS app development were mushrooming at every development center in the world. It felt that ‘native apps’ is the ultimate thing that the business world probably needed long time back, and hence all of sudden so much of craze for it.

The web developer London community predicted the rise in the market for mobile app and has prophesied that it will soon surpass the web development London based market! 

The sudden rise of mobile app market points out to the fact that the users are more comfortable using mobile apps than the web based applications.

What end users think?

The global buzz in the marketing world for the hybrid apps is huge nowadays! Whereas the people using these apps do not care for what it is! They do not care if it is hybrid or native; for them it is more of a concern that the app works or not!

The end user is always concerned about UI-UX aspect and nothing more! You would hardly find a person being too obsessed with the platform used to develop the app.

The new generations are tech savvy, however still not concerned about extreme technology updates!

Market

The market for cross platform app is anticipated to hit 9 billion by 2019, and the cross platform tools for mobile app development are ever increasing. Apps that work on all mobiles is the need of the marketers. They always needed a medium through which they could reach their customer base or fan base.
‘Hybrid apps’ or ‘apps that shall work on all mobile phones’ is the layman term for cross platform mobile apps.


Advent of Cross Platform Technologies

The advent of cross platform technologies like PhoneGap (Apache Cordova), Xamarin, Meteor, Appcelerator and many more facilitated the use of one code base for all platforms. That meant “write once and for all”!

The development cost got reduced to half of what it is for native app development. And the fact that the app would run on all mobile phones has hit the bull’s eye!

Generally the companies, enterprises and businesses have an ambition to reach out to the larger number of people as that helps in penetrating the promotional material to the target audience through the buzz.

The popularity of cross platform mobile app development is because of its digital marketing favorability and the aspirations of companies to use it for their professional benefits.

Although, it has become popular among the circles of enterprises and developers both. It is not only the businesses that are at the benefiting end, the developers are also benefiting out of the hybrid app building. 
The fact that a hybrid app runs on many platforms and need not to be developed separately for separate platforms. 
It makes the programmer’s job easy as code needs to be written only once and use it on multiple platforms like Android, Windows or iOS. 


Major Cross Platform Development Tools

The best cross platform mobile development tools, both because of the number of options they offer and their ease of use.

  1. PhoneGap
  2. Xamarin
  3. Appcelerator
  4. Meteor
  5. Sencha
  6. iFactr
  7. Redhat



Let’s look at some of the advantages of developing Cross Platform Apps.


Some of the advantages of developing Cross Platform apps are:


Lower Cost

Lower cost due to one time coding required! No matter how many platforms are to be covered it is extremely easier to curtail the expenses using cross-platform technology.

Earlier an app was required to be built for every platform, this meant that the cost would get multiplied that many times! The unnecessary costing meant that the client had to pay 3 times more for the same thing.

Makes the life of a developer easier!

The elimination of the repetition of tasks and unnecessary labor has been the key difference from the developer’s point of view or perspective.

Quicker development time

The above two points contribute to the quicker development.

Ready made code Packets

Almost all top most cross platform frameworks provide readymade code packets called boilerplate that can help the speedily development of the app.

This not only allows faster deployment of an app but also makes it easier for developers to synchronize the app during upgradations.

Uniformity

It assures that the UI and UX of the application is uniform across every platform as the identical code packets are implemented everywhere.

For customers, the inefficiency of an app is measured by it failing in the basic UI UX metrics!


So the conclusion of the post is that the businesses should go for cross platform apps as they are in their own interest!


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