What Are The Classifications Of Mobile Application Development Platforms? – Part – 2

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Native Build tools

Expert and experienced mobile application tool vendors follow a standard process. The products built using the standard and traditions processes offer sophisticated IDE tool that can be used in designing and developing apps using proprietary frameworks.

When developers create an app using native build tools and with specifying the target OS, the tool naturally optimizes the packaging for the respective platform. Here, device or platform specific runtime just not takes care of user interface screen optimization but also handles the stuffs like memory, power, consumption and bandwidth management.

The same tool set also offers strong middleware features. These features include synchronization of offline data, device security, integration of backend system, management of transaction, and so on.

Here are the major advantages of this process:

The tool set offers excellent WYSIWYG editors with drag & drop feature. It also offers features for expression builders, script and property sheets.
The tool set also guarantees device and platform diversity.
The ...
... apps built using the tool set deliver good performance.
You can quickly push your application to the market with this type of native tool.
You need to write the app once and than it can be deployed on multiple platforms.

But with advantages, native build tools set offers following disadvantages:

Proprietary framework is used to build architecture.
Vendor-lock is problematic.
If you want to run things smoothly in the tool set, you need to learn a new skill-set.
It also costs too much.
The license of this toolset may be either device/session based or CPU based.

Hybrid Build tools:

Hybrid build tools make use of both web technologies and native Mobile application development technologies. These tools use HTML 5 hybrid frameworks for building apps. Apps that are called hybrid apps primarily concentrate on providing features of middleware server. The server behaves like a gateway between the mobile apps and the backend systems of an enterprise. The tools for hybrid application development generally use REST web service.

Here are the major advantages of using Hybrid Build Tools:

These tools are generally based on the open standards. So developers can use them at their convenient.
They have a flexible framework that lets developer select the UI framework that they want to use.
The code generated can be used for multiple platforms.
It costs very limited fee. As these tools are open source, they are abided by a liberal licensing policy.

However there some disadvantages as well:

The tool cannot guarantee device diversity. If developers want to create cross-platform apps, they will need to depend on UI frameworks. They will also need to fine-tune the UI to specific platform or device
Hybrid app tools do not often succeed to deliver the User experience as similar to native apps.
There is strong need of tweaking the code for different platforms or screen resolutions.

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