5 Cross Platform Mobile App Development Tools
Read this blog to know about 5 best cross platform mobile app development tools. But before we go ahead with that, let’s understand why we need a mobile app in the first place. And then, why particularly cross platform mobile apps.
Since more and more people are now preferring smartphones over PCs to access the Internet, having only a website to grow your business is no longer enough. However, building a native app for each mobile platform is very time consuming and expensive. Besides, you need to write separate source codes for individual mobile platforms. And, you can actually use a very little of the code that’s already been written.
So, developers now think that it’s a good idea to go for cross platform mobile app development. For simple reasons, it makes your mobile app compatible with multiple mobile operating systems and enables to reuse the code that’s already been written. Besides, it involves low maintenance cost since you need not to offer support for multiple mobile platforms.
Click here to learn the distinction between cross platform mobile apps, native apps and hybrid apps.
Now that we know about the virtues of cross platform mobile app development, it’s paramount you know about the most effective and easy-to-use cross platform mobile app development tools. So, let’s move on to the most important part of this blog.
5 Best Cross Platform Mobile App Development Tools
#PhoneGap
The reason why PhoneGap, aka Apache Cordova, has gained immense popularity among developers is the ease of building cross platform mobile apps. No extra skills are required, your own development team is well capable of using it. This framework involves the use of standard web technologies such as HTML5, Java and CSS3 for building a cross platform mobile app.
Key Features of PhoneGap are as Follows:
- Easy to use and comes packed with many libraries
- Apps work uniformly well on multiple platforms
- Robust backend system increases the speed of app development
- Offers support for various application programming interfaces
- Since PhoneGap is open source, it comes for free
- PhoneGap based apps are easy to manage
- PhoneGap apps sport top-notch UI and enable seamless navigation
- Easy distribution and installation
#Sencha
Sencha, a tool to develop cross platform mobile apps in HTML5, is known as a time saving tool in the mobile app development industry. It also gives rise to high productivity. Besides, Sencha allows access to Sencha Architect, Sencha IDE Plugins and few others to further ease the process of cross platform app development. However, Sencha Ext JS 6 continues to enjoy the most widespread usage.
Once you make the HTML code ready using Sencha, the next step is to convert it to both Android and iOS. For conversion into Android and iOS, you can use a translational tool like PhoneGap.