Cross Platform Technologies to Deal with Multi-Platform Reality

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Mobility devices such as smartphones and tablets
are occupying a large space in our life and
mobile applications are the driving force
affecting this. No doubt, Apples iOS and Google
Android remain the leaders in the market,
however, Microsoft Windows Phone, BlackBerry and
other, smaller platforms cannot be overlooked
either. While many developers prefer sticking to
the big two for launching their app, many find it
lucrative to cover the entire base with
cross-platform applications. The Cross-platform
Edge At its inception, iOS were very close, and
developers could only develop for this platform
alone using Objective C, Mac and xCode. In case
of Android, over 50 of the market uses it, but
the platform itself is diversity personified with
varying devices, screen sizes, resolution,
processor speed, memory, operating system
versions. It became the developers aim to
create a single app that would break through
these boundaries, and then entered the
cross-platform app development technologies. HTML
5 The HTML5 web and hybrid applications were the
most favored solution as they offered exceptional
client-side experience. It comes with geolocation
tagging, audio and video, offline working
capabilities, brilliant graphics and much more.
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For instance, the Kindle web app on iOS is an
HTML5 app as they could not keep up with App
Store policies and were keen on delivering a
great user experience. There are limits to how
much data can be stored locally and the available
APIs. To break this limitation, there is a hybrid
of HTML5, JavaScript and a few extra libraries.
Using the native code wrapper, a common set of
APIs can be used for all platforms and enhanced
to meet the device needs. PhoneGap is the leader
in this field and its open source project Apache
Cordova provides platform-specific wrapper for
iOS, Android, Blackberry and Windows Phone. Why
Go Cross-platform? Three points sum up the
advantages of cross-platform application- HTML5
the common language that most users know and
understand. It offers interface control, and
behaves exactly as expected.
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Cross-platform apps have their advantages, but
cannot be applied everywhere as graphic-intensive
applications need native development platforms
for functioning to their optimal potential. We
offer hybrid application development services
with cross-platform app development technologies.
You can speak to our experts to find out more.