Sunday, March 4, 2012

The pros and cons of designing cross-platform applications

Mobile applications and a mobile strategy are no more a luxury for businesses and organizations. In today's competitive environment it's a necessity for businesses to have a solid mobile strategy that can help them in tapping into the vast mobile user base. One of the biggest challenges for organizations is to decide whether they need a single-platform application or a multi-platform application. There are a lot of factors involved that must be properly thought on before choosing the development platform.

Some of the pros of using cross-platform framework for developing mobile apps are as mentioned below:

Reusability of the Code: Cross platform frameworks allow developers to write the code once and then use whatever part they want in some other or future projects.

Easy availability of plug-ins: There are many plugins and modules available for cross platform frameworks that allow developers to easily integrate other services and tools.

Easy to use: As most of these frameworks are dynamic or based on scripting languages therefore developers are always comfortable with such technologies. Further, most frameworks also allow HTML5 and CSS3 for designing purposes and these are some of the most favorite technologies of developers.

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