The document discusses and compares several popular mobile application development platforms (MADPs), including Kony App Platform, Android Studio, Apple Xcode, Appcelerator, Kinvey, Appzillon, and Microsoft's Xamarin. For each platform, it outlines their key features and capabilities, pros, and cons. The platforms vary in their support for native or cross-platform development, programming languages used, ease of use, documentation, and other factors.

1. Best Mobile Application Development Platforms (MADPs)
Kinvey
Appzillon
Microsoft’s
Xamarin
Appcelerator
Apple Xcode
Android Studio
Kony App
Platform

2. Kony App
Platform
Kony AppPlatform is very useful to create both native and cross-
platform apps. The greatest advantage of Kony is the drag-and-drop
feature that they include from Kony Marketplace, or from their API
libraries. Developers can re-check the connectivity of APIs.
Pros
Kony have sample apps as to educate the new developers. It has
wide range of backend systems.
Cons
On the web, There is not enough documentation and support for
Kony. Due to that beginners not go for it as compared to other
platforms.

3. Android Studio has many shortcuts and SDK according to the
targeted device as on which we want to run the app. APIs
connectivity is also easier and according to SDK functions and their
usage changes in Android Studio.
Here, XML code is easy to written and its implementation is simple.
Pros
It has easy shortcuts and working on xml is simple and description
of every function given in detail so according to that we can use
them.
Cons
It needs very good hardware to run it. Slow working might be
because of the performance of hardware. Java code in it get a little
bit complex as the project increases.
Android
Studio

4. Apple Xcode is the mobile application development platform for
IOS developers and languages used in it are Swift, Objective-C and
also use of C,C++. Xcode is quite fine platform as all iOS developed
applications run on iPhones and iPads. All codes are in shortcut
manner and easy to implement them.
Pros
Drag-and-Drop feature is widely used in it and it is the main
advantage of Xcode to design the app. And the codes are in it are
not that much lengthy.
Cons
Developers have to take the permissions for the services that they
want to include in the application. Apply all such services on it and
again they have to wait for the confirmation from the Apple.
Apple
Xcode

5. Appcelerator platform provides the cross-platform native mobile
app development for JavaScript and also for backend. The code
which we write on it can be reused to 60%-90% on multiple
platforms. On it we uses JavaScript based APIs for IOS, Android,
Windows, Blackberry and HTML5.
Pros
Rapid Prototyping accelerate the use of it where in few hours and
few lines of code we can build a full app. In this we use JSON format
for data transfer, JSON is the encoder for JavaScript and
Appcelerator fully works on JavaScript APIs.
Cons
Documentation is not always great many times we face some
problems in it. There are lots of trial errors in it. We need specific
coding for both IOS and Android.
Appcelerator

6. In Kinvey’s platform there are solutions which allow developers to
think and build the best apps. Client libraries give all the features for
all native, hybrid and web development frameworks.
Pros
BaaS (Backend-as-a-Service) is the cloud backend service which is
trusted for the app development projects and it is easy to connect
with app with BaaS. Kinvey also gives the attractive plan as 100
active users can store 2GB of data with 5 million notifications.
Cons
There are some chances of coding damage as you written some
code and in future it can be manipulated. It is not good for bigger
projects as we have to face difficulties in it and also in testing. Also
may be our data can be loosed.
Kinvey

7. Appzillon is a cross-platform mobile app development platform
which provides us security control (advanced security), advanced
UX tools (like geolocation) and much more. It supports in-built
transition library. Appzillon has strong experience in the banking
sector so many designs of it are based on commercial banking.
Pros
It creates apps with great security and high usability for user. As for
banking purpose it make apps with alpha grade security and for
data allocation it is fine and everything is protected through it. Also
the app development is pretty rapid.
Cons
Problem of management rises as the apps are created for banking
purpose all such banking problems also generates. Location
problem as it always needs GPS service as sometimes it loses the
power in device and causes a loss of information.
Appzillon

8. Microsoft’s Xamarin
Microsoft’s Xamarin is used to create Android, IOS and Windows
apps with great precision. It also develop native apps for android,
IOS and windows with are easy to implement and rapidly works.
Languages on it works are C#, CSS and XAML these are used in
Xamarin.
Pros
Xamarin give us full developer support. It has many learning
opportunities and also through which stability and performance are
also high. Developers with great skills in C# will love Xamarin.
Cons
There is no code reusability in Xamarin as if we switch the platform
it will not work on another platform. API problem as it takes time to
update the APIs according to SDK in which we are using it.
Microsoft’s
Xamarin