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Cross-Platform App Development Tools, upsides and the most popular in 2021

Today, competition in the online market becomes harder and harder because a wide range of people is connected with a different platform. To target all types of audiences, most companies are created mobile versions of their websites to keep pace with the competition. To remain competitive, cross-platform development is the most suitable solution for any kind of business. It allows creating of reliable applications targeting all customer devices. Therefore, your application will reach more people and your business will reach a new dimension.

A survey from Statista said 83% of businesses target launching their app on Google Play Store, where 59% of productive develop launch apps for Apple’s App Store. However, removing all concerns for what is the user platform, making a cross-platform application is the wisest decision.

But you may want to know, What are the Benefits of Cross-Platform App Development Frameworks? It’s a question of confusion and a matter of argument. But here we show some of the upsides of cross-platform app development frameworks which might help to make a great decision.

Code Reusability

Most probably the biggest advantage of using cross-platform app development frameworks is code reusability. For the convenience of developers, this feature is very important. Cross-platform frameworks allow developers to write code once and reuse that codebase to deploy the app into multiple platforms.

the app into multiple platforms. This concept of code reusability is commonly known as “Write Once Run Anywhere” or WORA. It minimizes repetition, saves operational costs and time. Eliminating excessive effort, a shared codebase allows you to add another platform whenever you want.

Reduced Costs & Resources

Cross-platform app development frameworks assist you to find a good balance between quality and cost. It allows you to be agile when you have a smaller team with one skill set but a codebase for multiple platforms.

As a result, less time, minimal resources and fewer efforts save your costs. Is there anyone who doesn’t want to minimize his/her cost?

Reach the whole Market

Cross-platform frameworks provide you the maximum capability to reach your target audience because it allows you to deploy your application on multiple platforms. People using different platforms such as Android, Windows, iOS, macOS and Web. It confirms your application to get a wide range of audience.

Uniform Design

Sharing unified UI/UX across different platforms becomes easier when you are using cross-platform frameworks. They also maintain platform-specific standards. So, don’t need to face more hassle. Their design pattern will help users to easily understand and interact with the app using any platform. Therefore, definitely you can be faster to build your application..

Now, there might arise a question How to Choose the Appropriate Hybrid App Framework

Well, the choice of the best solution for your hybrid development depends on some issues and criteria. From thousands of features the most significant are:

  • The size of your company
  • Your skills/ your developer's skills
  • So, without considering these factors, actually it is impossible to determine which tool is best for you.

    If you have a small company or if you are an independent developer, you might use Ionic to develop your simple app. Sencha, Flutter or Xamarin suit most large firms, agencies and enterprises as they need powerful solutions.

    On the other hand, if you give priority to smooth performance and want a full stack of native features, then the native app framework is most appropriate for you.

    Before choosing any framework, first of all, you should know which are top-rated and what they offer. So, let’s have a look at the most popular cross-platform development frameworks.

    FLUTTER

    If you want to develop a high-performance web application, Flutter should be your first choice without any confusion. It is an ideal framework to develop cross-platform applications along with Clock-Challenge. It has created based on Google’s in-house Dart language. For this reason, it offers faster code writing capability and faster execution features to the developers.

    Flutter is one of the advanced levels of UI tool which has been launched by Google in 2018. More importantly, it is a well-suited kit for the modern app development environment. This open-source Software development kit offers you a range of choices of UI properties, widgets and compatibility. The high-performance rendering engine allows developers excellent customization scope. It integrates smooth animations into the applications.

    This tool is very handy as it allows you to see live changes while you are coding without saving the code. Its name is Hot Reload feature. For enjoying the high performance, we suggest you use this framework. Since it is a baby of Google, you can trust it and we ensure that it will continue adding more advanced features in the future.

    Its major use cases are Google Ads and Alibaba. Therefore, you can enjoy active community support.

    REACT NATIVE

    React Native is one of the best tools to create native applications. To develop apps, it uses JavaScript as a programming language. It is based on React which is a best-in-class JavaScript library to create a user interface. It is built for targeting mobile platforms.

    The strong side of React Native is it allows you to write modules in languages such as C, Java and Swift. So, you can create native platforms app to the cross-platform app using it. It can convert the source code into native elements which offer a native user experience that is really amazing.

    The best thing about this framework is, you can work on image editing as well as video processing which can’t be possible with the other API frameworks. It is undoubtedly one of the best platforms to build a cross-platform application as it can interpret source code to native elements. Facebook and Instagram have used this framework so you can easily trust it.

    IONIC FRAMEWORK

    If you are an individual developer or have a small company and are trying to build a small app, Ionic is the best App development Tool for you. It is definitely among the best hybrid app frameworks as it meets up the properties which are in demand. For instance, it is open-source, easily maintained, user-friendly, scalable as well as easy to read.

    Ionic provides amazing flexibility to use it though you have less knowledge about cross-development. It comes up with a library of HTML, CSS and JavaScript components that are optimized for mobile development. Thus, it helps to build interactive apps faster.

    Offering a rich set of features and tools, it includes out-of-the-box support for native style of mobile, UI elements, layouts and its material design. Our experts will help you out in this regard if you have become confused about which elements are important for your application.

    As Ionic-based hybrid applications feature native functionalities, customizable tools and specific gestures, you can easily improve your app’s user-friendliness. however, they depend on wrappers like Cordova or PhoneGap to run as native. An amazingly handy tool!

    CORDOVA PHONEGAP

    PhoneGap is known as the Best Mobile app development tool. It is backed by Adobe and the distribution of the Cordova framework. Because of its ease of use, this open-source mobile application development framework is considered one of the best and the most popular framework for hybrid solutions. It allows writing apps in HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript.

    PhoneGap gives native plugins along with containers for each mobile platform. It allows a developer to create more features. Also allows accessing device functionality such as camera, compass, microphone, accelerometer, file system and more others. Apps run in a WebView browser inside a native container after they are developed.

    Xamarin

    Xamarin is the best cross-platform mobile app development tool which is leading free and provides an open-source platform. For building hybrid mobile apps, it is an awesome and handy tool. The best part of it is, Xamarin-based solutions are compatible with any mobile platform. At the same time, it provides the same performance and user experience as native solutions.

    This popular Microsoft cross-platform mobile app framework uses C# programming language and it is complemented with the .NET framework. The components that it includes are:

  • Xamarin Studio/Visual Studio (its IDE)
  • Xamarin SDKs
  • Xamarin Test Cloud
  • Xamarin.Mac to build native Mac apps
  • Sencha

    Looking for an enterprise-grade application development framework? Sencha is the leader in this development process. Its comprehensive platform allows your team to give focus on building applications not on organizing a framework. Based on modern web technologies, it includes ES6, HTML5, CSS and JavaScript. So, your application will be updated.

    Developers can create data-intensive as well as cross-platform web and mobile applications. Originally its main name is Sencha Touch. It has a set of tools and themes that enhance productivity and facilitate optimization, deployment, design, theming and debugging.

    The more you become updated, the more you achieve success easily. Contact us and enjoy a smooth journey in developing your application.

               

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