Facts About Top Three Cross Platform Mobile Development Frameworks You Should Know

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Mobiles have become an indispensible part of our daily life. With the advent of latest technologies, the demand of customers has also increased manifolds. Amidst such competitive scenario, it has become quite challenging to develop mobile applications that are best in performance and efficiently meets the expectations of customers. Several mobile app developing companies across the globe are using their best available resources to come up with innovative applications that can take the world by a storm.

Such companies are well backed by expert professionals who are well versed in mobile application tools and have undeniably solved cross-platform issues to a large amount.
The improvement of such tools does away with the need of creating same type of application separately. They not only save time but also provide developers with a wide scope of building applications.

Here are top three cross platform mobile application development frameworks that have gained immense popularity:

Titanium

It has turned out to be the choice of thousands of developers worldwide.
Its award winning environment helps enterprises in gaining a significant competitive edge with chances to market 60% faster. Till date, it has helped in developing more than 50,000 applications on more than 153, 319, 678 devices. It’s JavaScript and single code base does away with the need to manage multiple toolkits, methodologies and languages. Cross platform Titanium development frameworks is best for quick building, testing, packaging and publishing mobile apps.

PhoneGap

An open source framework for mobile app development, PhoneGap helps companies and developers in creating free and open source applications. Developed by Nitobi Software under the license of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), cross platform PhoneGap development environment allows creation of apps for OS’s iPhone, Windows mobile, Android, Symbian, Blackberry and webOS.

Ideal for building cross-platform mobile apps, PhoneGap uses modern web technologies such as- JavaScript, HTML and CSS. It helps in creation of hybrid applications (neither web- based nor native). As it does not have a unique IDE for app development, developers have to execute the source code on various IDEs.

Its architecture is composed of 3 layers, namely-

Web application- It represents the environment for creation of app using IDE
PhoneGap- It is composed from JavaScript API, PhoneGap and API Native
OS and native APIs.

HTML5

Reports of 2013 Global Developer Survey on 5000 developers across the world by Kendo UI revealed that 90% of them prefer using cross platform HTML5 development instead of native apps. 51% of the developers worked for small to mid-sized businesses, 20% worked for enterprises while 29% worked for startup ventures.

Different types of apps that are built using HTML5 include those related to productivity, utility, consumer, LOB, social networking, entertainment, lifestyle, travel, games and others.
This framework has its own limitations as developers surveyed by the company admitted that it is really difficult to develop apps for Blackberry and iOS platforms.

There are a number of mobile app development service providers available but before finalizing services of any company, it is wise to do ample research about their works and projects undertaken till date.

About Author:Jessica Gilbert is a skilled professional in mobile application technologies. Writes articles related to mobile application and related topics. It is an expert writer for numerous topics related to mobile phones application. If you know more information about cross platform Mobile application development you should hire our mobile application developers.