The development of mobile apps has become necessary for the success of companies. The continuing growth of smartphones offers companies a unique opportunity to come into contact with potential customers via mobile apps. With so many mobile devices coming onto the market every day, it's no surprise for developers to create apps that can work on multiple platforms. Checkout the best 10 cross platform app development tools for mobile apps to develop mobile apps.

1. 10 AWESOME CROSS PLATFORM APP
DEVELOPMENT TOOLS TO BUILD
IMPRESSIVE MOBILE APPS
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2. IMPORTANCE OF CROSS PLATFORM APP
DEVELOPMENT
With the introduction of multiple platforms, Mobile Application Development Companies’ aim is
not only to build an app, but the concern is to build the app for each platform. WORA - Write
Once Run Anywhere, allows the developer to write a piece of code at once, which can run on
multiple platforms. Furthermore, the design and application created once works wonderfully on
various platforms such as Windows, Android, iOS and BlackBerry OS.
With the diverse mobile platforms, the Cross Platform App Development became a viable
commercial option. Now, instead of the native app development, the Cross-Platform
Development Framework with a single code composition started ruling the Mobile App
Development world. It helps you not only with your development investments but also with all the
hassle you were facing while updating and managing services or processes.
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3. TOP 10 CROSS PLATFORM APP
DEVELOPMENT TOOLS
There are many such platforms available to help you with Cross Platform Mobile
App Development. Before ranking them, one needs to analyse the speed, features,
support and development cost.
• Xamarin
• PhoneGap
• Kony
• React Native
• Ionic
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• Apache Cordova
• Sencha
• Appcelerator
• Framework7
• Flutter

4. Xamarin is a quite popular cross platform development tool that lets you build native Android, iOS
and Windows app, with the help of a single shared C# code base. It allows you to implement the
similar APIs, IDE and language everywhere. Cross Platform App Development with Xamarin, can
be tested on a number of devices. Moreover, Xamarin offers easy integration with backends such as
Foursquare, Microsoft Azure, Parse, SAP and IBM. No platform can beat Xamarin when it comes to
applying Ruby or C#. Also, the git integration is built directly into the Xamarin studio.
Xamarin supports MVC (Model View Controller) and MVVM (Model View ViewModel) structure. This
allows Cross Platform App Developers to keep application logic and presentation separate. Also,
enables them to modify, update, test and maintain the application code easily. Xamarin allows
developers to achieve up to 96% code reusability, helps them save time and put more efficiency on
other important features.
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5. The platform is now owned by Adobe, which goes the same way to explain its increasing popularity.
Adobe is also developing an enterprise version of PhoneGap. It is based on open source Apache
Cordova. Cordova is a set of device APIs that enable applications to access particular, native device
functions over various device platforms. Utilizing the cross-platform plugins, and Apache Cordova
APIs, Mobile App Developers can build applications utilizing HTML5, CSS3, and Java Web
languages. This will help to develop singleton application that will run on multiple mobile platforms.
“The thought behind the Cordova is straightforward.” You are able to compose an application once
and you will be able to run it on an entire suite of various devices.
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6. Kony is an integrated, Cross Platform Mobile Development tool that is being widely used to
develop universal mobile apps. The platform using JavaScript and reusable widgets, with the ability
to import existing or third party libraries. It provides automatic code completion features, app
preview feature, API connectivity and many other exciting features. As it comes with various pre-
developed apps it acts as a great starter for beginners as well as developers. It also offers unified
mobile infrastructure services which support the backend systems.
Recently, Kony launched the mobile fabric platform and claims that it is the first Enterprise Mobile
App Development Solution that brings multiple cloud service and middleware tools together.
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7. React Native is the next generation of React - a JavaScript code library. Which is developed by
engineers of Facebook and Instagram, and was released on Github in 2013. Today, React Native is
the most versatile platform, and by using it you are able to develop a ‘Mobile Web App’ an HTML5
app and a ‘Hybrid App’ as well. Rudimentary, the mobile app that is indistinguishable from a mobile
app developed using objective-C or Java, React Native uses the same fundamental UI blocks to build
regular iOS and Android App.
As it backed by Facebook, you can expect regular updates on this framework. Now, If you want your
apps to perform best over all the available mobile platforms, React Native is the best hybrid solution.
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8. Ionic is an open source cross platform framework used to develop a hybrid cross-platform solution.
Ionic is using web technologies such as HTML5 and CSS. It is a powerful HTML5 SDK that helps to
build native-feeling Mobile Apps using most popular web techniques. It is mainly focused on the UI
interaction of the a.pp. Also, Iconic uses AngularJS for a number of core functionalities for the
framework. While it is possible to Iconic with just the CSS part. As a matter of fact, an experienced
Mobile App Developer will definitely suggest investing in AngularJS as it is one of the best options
to build Browser-based applications. Iconic is not only looks great but also powerful enough to build
the amazing apps of each vertical.
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9. PhoneGap is an original and popular distribution of Apache Cordova. At present, Cross platform
Mobile App Developers are able to use Cordova Framework as an open source framework for cross-
platform mobile app development. Apache Cordova allows developers to build hybrid mobile apps
with JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3. Ionic is a set of CSS classes and JavaScript library, which is built on
top of Apache Cordova with AngularJS. By using Cordova, hybrid app developers are able to build
an app with a single codebase and once the code is created it can run on all devices.
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10. PhoneGap is an original and popular distribution of Apache Cordova. At present, Cross
platform Mobile App Developers are able to use Cordova Framework as an open source
framework for cross-platform mobile app development. Apache Cordova allows developers to
build hybrid mobile apps with JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3. Ionic is a set of CSS classes and
JavaScript library, which is built on top of Apache Cordova with AngularJS. By using Cordova,
hybrid app developers are able to build an app with a single codebase and once the code is
created it can run on all devices.
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11. Appcelerator, the Cross-Platform App Development tool allows using a single JavaScript codebase
to build, connect, and test. Also offers some value-added features: Real-time mobile analytics and
MbaaS - Mobile backend as a Service. The high-quality drag and drop allow 60% to 90% code
reusability while publishing on various platforms. It is the most suitable platform for rapid Mobile
App Development. It is equipped with integrations such as Microsoft Azure, SQL, Salesforce,
MongoDB and many others. It offers a private cloud for enterprise customers, so if you’re working
with sensitive company data, Appcelerator is the best option.
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12. Framework7 is an HTML framework to build Android and iOS apps. It is one of the free
cross platform mobile app development tool powered by Apache Cordova. It provides
an application framework which is built on Vue.js. This framework recreates standard iOS
Designs and Google’s Material Design patterns to replicate the “native look” mobile users
expect. Also, it can be used with other frameworks such as Angular or React if you want.
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13. Flutter is Google’s answer to their own problem: ‘We keep building iOS and Android applications for each
mobile product; that’s getting annoying.’ It requires Dart, which replaces JavaScript. Not only Flutter bolster
Google’s own programming language, but it also remains intimately tied to another Google product: Material
Design. You can use a rich set of fully-customizable widgets to develop native interfaces quickly. Organizations
around the world such as Alibaba.com, Tencent and Google AdWords choose building apps with Flutter. As it
is backed by Google, It is not going to settle for any less. With the help of Google tools, you can build an app
that is just like Gmail, Google Maps, and other applications.
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14. The order doesn't reflect the superiority or inferiority of any particular platform.
Every tool is capable of dazzling Cross Platform App Development, hence the
selection should be done as per the requirements of the project. Always look for
future benefits and go for the feature-rich cross-platform app development
solution which offers a wide range of Cross-Platform Mobile Solutions across the
globe using latest technologies according your diverse business needs.
Wrapping up
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