Top Cross Platform App Development Frameworks

Cross-platform app development frameworks facilitate the creation of such
software applications that are compatible across a variety of operating
system ranging from Android to iOS. With its reusable code component
system, it helps developers leverage the program developed for one app
again and again.
To put it in other words, it makes use of a single source code amidst multiple
platforms. This, in turn, plays a significant role in speeding up the whole app
development process along with significant cost reduction. Here's a detailed
look at some of the significant cross-platform app development frameworks.
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Introduction

React Native is another cross-app development
framework that has accelerated the development
process of apps.
It has over 1.6k contributors who have committed
code to this framework’s codebase. It uses
JavaScript and Reacts to build Native Android and
iOS Mobile apps.
It can leverage complex UI and component-based
UI. This, in turn, helps developers utilize the same
UI component to React Native iOS and Android
apps. This is the reason its popularity has doubled
up in the past few years.
React Native
Cross-Platform App Development Frameworks

Advantages of React Native
Facilitates Code Reuse and cost Saving
React Native facilitates the reuse of 90% of code between Android and iOS. It
means that the same code can be deployed on both platforms. This wouldn't only
reduce the development time but, also enhance the cost-saving considerably.
Comes up With Live Reloading
Live Reload allows the developer to immediately see the result of any changes
made in the code. While one window will show the code, the other window will
display the effect of changes made in the app.

Advantages of React Native
Robust Performance
React Native is super-fast and robust in performance. The use of GPU (Graphics
Processing Unit) makes the React Native architecture well-tuned and compatible
with all the devices.
Techtic, with its excellent team of developers, has a thorough knowledge of React
Native's modular and intuitive interface. This makes them a pro at creating apps
that are easy to develop and maintain.

Ionic is a cross-platform framework that facilitates the
development of interactive mobile apps that can get
deployed across different platforms ranging from
Android, iOS, windows, and web. It is a free and open
source framework created on top of Angular JS and
PhoneGap. It was one of the leading cross platform
framework in 2016.
Ionic provides a variety of tools for the development of
hybrid mobile apps with the help of technologies such as
CSS, HTML5, and SASS. Further, it even has a plethora of
features ranging from Bluetooth, HealthKit, Finger Print
Auth, PhoneGap plugins and TypeScript extensions.
These features make the overall development of
advanced apps easy. Here's a look at its various
advantages.
Ionic

Advantages of Ionic
Learning is Easy
Ionic is an easy to learn development framework. All a developer needs to have is
the general familiarity with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
Reduced Development Time
Since Ionic apps run on different platforms such as Android, iOS, windows, etc., it
saves a developer from writing different codes for each platform. A code written
for one app can be deployed across all the iOS, Android, and Windows devices.
This, in turn, reduces the overall development time a lot.

Advantages of Ionic
Higher Feasibility
Ionic helps in the development of cross-platform apps with optimum utilization of
resources such as time, assets and efforts. This facilitates a unified look and feel
of the app while enhancing its feasibility.
Techtic has all the expertise to build applications based on Ionic rapidly. The
developers here know how to deploy standard tools with a single code base.

Flutter is a modern development kit by Google,
that will facilitate the development of mobile apps
for Android, iOS, and Google Fuchsia, a new
platform being developed by Google. Since its
inception, Flutter has got immensely popular
among the developers—as evident from the graph
shown below:
Flutter

Advantages of Flutter
Hot Reload
Hot reload refers to the fact that developers can preview all the changes made to
the code in the app itself. It hardly takes few seconds to visualize the changes,
thereby enabling the developers to directly experiment, resolve any technical
glitches or buds, and add new features. Consequently, you will be able to ensure
more effective collaboration between the developers and designers.
Ideal for Minimum Viable Product (MVP)
In case you want your investors to see the product on a short notice, Flutter
mobile application can help you out. The app will look native on both Android
and iOS. This will give your investors a complete picture of the MVP. While
developing two separate apps would be time-consuming, Flutter makes things
easy for the developer.

Advantages of Flutter
Less Code
Flutter uses Dart as the programming language. It is similar to React Native as the
programming style is reactive and declarative. It enhances the app startup times
and overall performance as no JavaScript bridge is needed.
This is easily achieved with the help of 'Ahead-of-Time' or AOT compilation used
by Dart. It also takes help of Just-in-Time or JIT compilation which ultimately
refines the development workflow as it enables hot reload capability to refresh
the user interface during development, thereby eliminating the need of building a
new version.

Xamarin is a robust cross-platform app solution that is being
used by 1.4 million developers spanning 120 countries. Take
a look at the increasing number of developers using it.
Xamarin works across multiple operating systems. It doesn't
only provide developers with excellent tools that facilitate
the building of cross-platform apps but, also consists of all
the native features along with the ability to share a common
code base.
All in all, Xamarin is an excellent platform for building an
app that's high on functionality and support. From letting
the developer include added functionalities through simple
plugins to integrating the application with popular
backends, Xamarin does it all like a pro. Here's a sneak peek
in its various advantages.
Xamarin

Advantages of Xamarin
The Enhanced App Development Cycle
Since Xamarin contains reusable code, 90% of it can get recycled for app
development across various platforms. This doesn't only accelerate the pace of
development but also reduces the period of the product development lifecycle.
Facilitates Rapid Mobile App Development for
Business
Xamarin serves as a business-friendly platform because of its agility and the
reasonable cost approach. With its user interface making use of form libraries,
the whole development process becomes smooth, rapid and straightforward.

Advantages of Xamarin
Reduces Hardware Compatibility Issues
Xamarin mobile app Development Company has a range of plug-ins and
supporting APIs for cross-platform app development. This facilitates the
interaction of native level with the operating device hardware, thereby giving
excellent compatibility options for app development.
All in all, Xamarin is the future of mobile application development. Techtic, with
its fully expert team of developers, can help you leverage Xamarin by making use
of its extensive toolset for developing world-class cross-platform mobile
applications.

PhoneGap is the next big thing for cross platform
mobile development. It’s recommended for those
app projects which have to be developed in a cost
effective manner. The single code base can be used
for creating multiple versions of an app.
It’s an open-source framework for mobile app
development. In spite of being based on web
standard technologies like HTML, CSS and JavaScript,
apps created with PhoneGap do support native
device features like accelerometer, compass, GPS,
camera, storage, contact, network and lot more
through APIs.
Phonegap

Advantages of Phonegap
• Single code base can be used to create apps for iOS, Android, Windows Phone
and mobile web.
• Even if you have developed the app using PhoneGap, the app can be distributed
on App store and Google Play.
•There is no need of additional development skills
• If the app is going to be the extension of your existing enterprise app, hybrid will
prove to be best choice.
• With Phonegap, it is easy to do rapid testing ad deployment of an app
• You can create hybrid apps to save the development time and efforts.
• If there is little time to go to market, Phonegap is the technology to be used.

One of the major hurdle mobile app development industry is facing right now is with
the proliferation of mobile platforms. It becomes lengthy, cumbersome and
expensive method to build a native mobile application for each platform. Moreover,
ensuring the features of the operating system and phone is another trouble.
The web applications are just not good enough. Which is why, companies started
building frameworks and libraries to work with a single code base for iOS and
Android. To name a few, Facebook came up with React Native, Microsoft's Xamarin,
Google's Flutter, Phonegap and Ionic.
Techtic Solutions Inc. team has extensive experience in building both, native & cross
platform mobile applications. We have served many industries with our expertise.
Our cross platform mobile app development team in NYC is always updated with
the trending technologies to incorporate & implement the most efficient
methodologies to build mobile apps.
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