Cross Platform Technologies to Deal with Multi-Platform Reality

HTML5 The HTML5 web and hybrid applications were the most favored solution as they offered exceptional client-side experience. It comes with geolocation tagging, audio and video, offline working capabilities, brilliant graphics and much more.

For instance, the Kindle web app on iOS is an HTML5 app as they could not keep up with App Store policies and were keen on delivering a great user experience.

There are limits to how much data can be stored locally and the available APIs. To break this limitation, there is a hybrid of HTML5, JavaScript and a few extra libraries. Using the native code wrapper, a common set of APIs can be used for all platforms and enhanced to meet the device needs.

PhoneGap is the leader in this field and its open source project Apache Cordova provides platform-specific wrapper for iOS, Android, Blackberry and Windows Phone.

Why Go Cross-platform?

Three points sum up the advantages of cross-platform applicationHTML5 – the common language that most users know and understand. It offers interface control, and behaves exactly as expected.

Cross-platform apps have their advantages, but cannot be applied everywhere as graphic-intensive applications need native development platforms for functioning to their optimal potential.

We offer hybrid application development services with cross-platform app development technologies. You can speak to our experts to find out more.