Cross Platform Mobile App Development: The Next Big Smart Thing
Today’s modern world has featured a prolific involvement of smart gadgets and mobile devices in everyday use. Mobile applications are no longer a luxury, but have become a necessity of day-to-day life. The main reason for this tech-revolution can be accounted to the availability of mobile apps for every possible customer need. Customer crowd has access to an unlimited pool of requirement specific mobile apps, be it for educational, business, gaming, lifestyle, utility or entertainment purposes.
The total global share of mobile app market, comprising of players like Apple’s App store, Google Play store, ISV’s, amateur developers and many others, is expected to cross over $77 billion by the end of 2018. With technology trends like AR, virtual assistants and AI rooting deeper in the consumer market, developer communities and tech giants have started to see the future of mobile apps in new light.
Mobile app developers have started to shift their focus towards hybrid app development practices to balance the growing need of the app market. Developers are now more focused on cross-platform mobile development that can be used on multiple mobile platforms. Enterprises have also been witnessing a growing trend of BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) concept, which refers to employees bringing their own personal mobile device into the workplace to curb down the use of traditional desktops or company-provided mobile devices for accessing company applications and data. With BYOD in play, businesses have started to develop their corporate mobile apps that operate on various networks and different operating systems. Developers are using the concept of write once, run anywhere (WORA), which allows them to write code once on one platform, and run it on multiple platforms. The concept largely facilitates reusability and versatility of code that can work efficiently on multiple platforms, including Android, iOS, Windows, and many others.
Cross-platform applications effectively cut down the application development time by allowing the re-use of available codebase combined with right technology stack and planning. Developers can effectively cut down the development cost to roughly half the standard price, also target a better user experience by providing unity of interface and update synchronization. Cross-platform apps can effectively fulfill the performance and UX requirements and provide every of its user with a smoother and glitch free mobile experience. Industry leading cross-platform app development tools like Apache Cordova, Xamarin and Unity provide amazing tech stack features like HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript frameworks that allow the developer to re-use and simplify app development that can run on both Android and iOS efficiently.
With a growing demand for enterprise mobile applications that require lesser resource utilization and shorter development time, cross-platform applications stand as the best possible recourse to employ. Developers and enterprises need to shift their focus from the native app development zone and contribute in building a better developer community for hybrid development platforms to cope with the challenges of enterprise and general application user pool.
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