Benefits of Cross Platform Mobile Application Development

If you are associated with mobile application development then you might be aware of compatibility issues of various applications developed for specific platforms. In this highly competitive application development environment, it has become risky to choose the best platform for your app for its success or failure heavily depends on the platform you choose.

If you Google around the mobile application market, you will find numerous platforms or OS like – iOS, Android, BlackBerry, Symbian, Windows and with time more OS are being added to this list. It has become a problem for mobile app developers to create applications compatible with other platforms; they are restricted to creating apps for specific OS only. So what’s the solution?

In past few years, the mobile app development industry has marched in a new direction of developing applications which run on multiple platforms. A recent trend in the application development industry is to design & develop applications in one general language which is supported by all major platforms. That is known as cross-platform mobile app development.

There are various open source cross platforms like PhoneGap, Titanium etc. available in the market which helps developers to create apps for multiple platforms with minimum source code. There are various benefits that one can achieve through cross-platform mobile app development, which makes it the first choice of mobile app developers.

Advantages of cross-platform mobile application development:

• As its name suggests, applications developed through cross-platform app development run on a variety of smartphones and tablets.

• It helps to reach out to a huge market base, which provides lots of opportunities to sell your application to the persons using different smartphone devices.

• Mostly all cross-platform development technologies are open source, which means they are “FREE”.

• Cross-platform technologies help to break the traditional technical barriers associated with development apps and help one to create apps which support multiple platforms.

• It also helps to minimize the skills required by developers as they need to learn only specific technology to develop an app which runs on a variety of platforms.

• Common code is used to develop apps for both iPhone and Android platform.

So from the above, we see what actually this cross-platform mobile application development is, besides its advantages