10 Awesome Cross Platform App Development Tools to Build Impressive Mobile Apps

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10 Awesome Cross Platform App Development Tools
to Build Impressive Mobile Apps
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Importance of Cross Platform App Development
With the introduction of multiple platforms,
Mobile Application Development Companies aim is
not only to build an app, but the concern is to
build the app for each platform. WORA - Write
Once Run Anywhere, allows the developer to write
a piece of code at once, which can run on
multiple platforms. Furthermore, the design and
application created once works wonderfully on
various platforms such as Windows, Android, iOS
and BlackBerry OS.   With the diverse mobile
platforms, the Cross Platform App Development
became a viable commercial option. Now, instead
of the native app development, the Cross-Platform
Development Framework with a single code
composition started ruling the Mobile App
Development world. It helps you not only with
your development investments but also with all
the hassle you were facing while updating and
managing services or processes.
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Top 10 Cross Platform App Development Tools
There are many such platforms available to help
you with Cross Platform Mobile App Development.
Before ranking them, one needs to analyse the
speed, features, support and development cost.

• Xamarin
• PhoneGap
• Kony
• React Native
• Ionic

• Apache Cordova
• Sencha
• Appcelerator
• Framework7
• Flutter

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Xamarin is a quite popular cross platform
development tool that lets you build native
Android, iOS and Windows app, with the help of a
single shared C code base. It allows you to
implement the similar APIs, IDE and language
everywhere. Cross Platform App Development with
Xamarin, can be tested on a number of devices.
Moreover, Xamarin offers easy integration with
backends such as Foursquare, Microsoft Azure,
Parse, SAP and IBM. No platform can beat Xamarin
when it comes to applying Ruby or C. Also, the
git integration is built directly into the
Xamarin studio.   Xamarin supports MVC (Model
View Controller) and MVVM (Model View ViewModel)
structure. This allows Cross Platform App
Developers to keep application logic and
presentation separate. Also, enables them to
modify, update, test and maintain the application
code easily. Xamarin allows developers to achieve
up to 96 code reusability, helps them save time
and put more efficiency on other important
features.
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The platform is now owned by Adobe, which goes
the same way to explain its increasing
popularity. Adobe is also developing an
enterprise version of PhoneGap. It is based on
open source Apache Cordova. Cordova is a set of
device APIs that enable applications to access
particular, native device functions over various
device platforms. Utilizing the cross-platform
plugins, and Apache Cordova APIs, Mobile App
Developers can build applications utilizing
HTML5, CSS3, and Java Web languages. This will
help to develop singleton application that will
run on multiple mobile platforms. The thought
behind the Cordova is straightforward. You are
able to compose an application once and you will
be able to run it on an entire suite of various
devices.
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Kony is an integrated, Cross Platform Mobile
Development tool that is being widely used to
develop universal mobile apps. The platform using
JavaScript and reusable widgets, with the ability
to import existing or third party libraries. It
provides automatic code completion features, app
preview feature, API connectivity and many other
exciting features. As it comes with various
pre-developed apps it acts as a great starter for
beginners as well as developers. It also offers
unified mobile infrastructure services which
support the backend systems.   Recently, Kony
launched the mobile fabric platform and claims
that it is the first Enterprise Mobile App
Development Solution that brings multiple cloud
service and middleware tools together.
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React Native is the next generation of React - a
JavaScript code library. Which is developed by
engineers of Facebook and Instagram, and was
released on Github in 2013. Today, React Native
is the most versatile platform, and by using it
you are able to develop a Mobile Web App an
HTML5 app and a Hybrid App as well.
Rudimentary, the mobile app that is
indistinguishable from a mobile app developed
using objective-C or Java, React Native uses the
same fundamental UI blocks to build regular iOS
and Android App.   As it backed by Facebook, you
can expect regular updates on this framework.
Now, If you want your apps to perform best over
all the available mobile platforms, React Native
is the best hybrid solution.
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Ionic is an open source cross platform framework
used to develop a hybrid cross-platform solution.
Ionic is using web technologies such as HTML5 and
CSS. It is a powerful HTML5 SDK that helps to
build native-feeling Mobile Apps using most
popular web techniques. It is mainly focused on
the UI interaction of the a.pp. Also, Iconic uses
AngularJS for a number of core functionalities
for the framework. While it is possible to Iconic
with just the CSS part. As a matter of fact, an
experienced Mobile App Developer will definitely
suggest investing in AngularJS as it is one of
the best options to build Browser-based
applications. Iconic is not only looks great but
also powerful enough to build the amazing apps of
each vertical.

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PhoneGap is an original and popular distribution
of Apache Cordova. At present, Cross platform
Mobile App Developers are able to use Cordova
Framework as an open source framework for
cross-platform mobile app development. Apache
Cordova allows developers to build hybrid mobile
apps with JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3. Ionic is a
set of CSS classes and JavaScript library, which
is built on top of Apache Cordova with AngularJS.
By using Cordova, hybrid app developers are able
to build an app with a single codebase and once
the code is created it can run on all devices.

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PhoneGap is an original and popular distribution
of Apache Cordova. At present, Cross platform
Mobile App Developers are able to use Cordova
Framework as an open source framework for
cross-platform mobile app development. Apache
Cordova allows developers to build hybrid mobile
apps with JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3. Ionic is a
set of CSS classes and JavaScript library, which
is built on top of Apache Cordova with AngularJS.
By using Cordova, hybrid app developers are able
to build an app with a single codebase and once
the code is created it can run on all devices.

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Appcelerator, the Cross-Platform App Development
tool allows using a single JavaScript codebase to
build, connect, and test. Also offers some
value-added features Real-time mobile analytics
and MbaaS - Mobile backend as a Service. The
high-quality drag and drop allow 60 to 90 code
reusability while publishing on various
platforms. It is the most suitable platform for
rapid Mobile App Development. It is equipped with
integrations such as Microsoft Azure, SQL,
Salesforce, MongoDB and many others. It offers a
private cloud for enterprise customers, so if
youre working with sensitive company data,
Appcelerator is the best option.

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Framework7 is an HTML framework to build Android
and iOS apps. It is one of the free cross
platform mobile app development tool powered by
Apache Cordova. It provides an application
framework which is built on Vue.js. This
framework recreates standard iOS Designs and
Googles Material Design patterns to replicate
the native look mobile users expect. Also, it
can be used with other frameworks such as Angular
or React if you want.

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Flutter is Googles answer to their own problem
We keep building iOS and Android applications
for each mobile product thats getting
annoying. It requires Dart, which replaces
JavaScript. Not only Flutter bolster Googles own
programming language, but it also remains
intimately tied to another Google product
Material Design. You can use a rich set of
fully-customizable widgets to develop native
interfaces quickly. Organizations around the
world such as Alibaba.com, Tencent and Google
AdWords choose building apps with Flutter. As it
is backed by Google, It is not going to settle
for any less. With the help of Google tools, you
can build an app that is just like Gmail, Google
Maps, and other applications.

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Wrapping up
The order doesn't reflect the superiority or
inferiority of any particular platform. Every
tool is capable of dazzling Cross Platform App
Development, hence the selection should be done
as per the requirements of the project. Always
look for future benefits and go for the
feature-rich cross-platform app development
solution which offers a wide range of
Cross-Platform Mobile Solutions across the globe
using latest technologies according your diverse
business needs.

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