With mobile app development and enterprise mobility on the rise, businesses have been left to contend with a diverse range of operating systems and device formats, creating development complexity that can quickly derail projects. Read the full blog: http://ap.pn/2oEg7XW

1. 2 Pros and 2 Cons
that Come with Cross-Platform
Mobile App Development

2. With mobile app development
and mobility technologies on the rise,
businesses have been left to contend
with a diverse range of operating systems
and device formats, creating development
complexity that can quickly derail projects.

3. 1
A study published by the IEEE pointed out that
the need to support mobile users in enterprise
settings has led to a growing movement toward
in-house app development.
The need to create apps quickly and get them into
production is pushing organizations to implement
cross-platform mobile app development solutions.
1. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7479278/?reload=true

4. The Rapid Rise of Cross-Platform
Development Platforms
2
A study reported on by IT Pro Portal found that cross-platform
app development tool use has increased by 10 percent in the
past 12 months.
Businesses are ramping up their in-house development efforts
as they work to keep up with mobile users.
Last year, just 51 percent
of those polled were
creating apps in-house
This year, that figure
rose to 71 percent
51%
71%
2. http://www.itproportal.com/2016/04/25/a-guide-to-mobile-development-the-facts-you-need-to-know/

5. With cross-platform development
gaining headway, businesses must
carefully consider how the functionality
will meet their specific needs.
Let’s:
Look at two major pros that come
with the development methodology.
Counter that conversation
with two of the cons it presents.

6. Pro 1: Rapid Deployment
In the case of deployment, we’re talking about the
entire process from:
Coming up with
app specifications
Developing it Testing it
Getting it out into the
production environment
Using a cross-platform solution accelerates all of these
processes to lead to a much faster time-to-market than
organizations would otherwise get.

7. Here's How
When developing an app for native use on a specific
ecosystem, the development team will use a specific
software development kit associated with that OS
and possibly for a device.
Once that app is created, organizations
must manually port the app over to another
OS by identifying all of the code that can
work commonly on the other system and then
customize everything else to make the app work.

8. This need to do the same work multiple times extends
to testing and to production, where operations teams
need to roll out multiple instances of the app.
Cross-platform development eliminates all of this
redundancy by allowing teams to develop, test
and release one version of the app and have it work
across all operating system environments.

9. Pro 2: Access to Common Dev Tools
Major APIs and similar development tools are
becoming a primary component of many app
development strategies.
Plenty of organizations are using APIs to effectively
integrate diverse services within app platforms,
creating a significant degree of simplicity that can
streamline and accelerate development projects.

10. With businesses frequently rolling out
custom app sand housing them in the
cloud, the simplicity of the service model
can be undermined by coding complexity.
Modern APIs and development tools
change this dynamic by adding a layer
of simplicity to cross-platform development
that is a natural fit with cloud environments,
particularly app platforms.
The ease of integrating APIs and other common
development tools is particularly valuable in this
increasingly cloud-focused world.

11. Con 1: Performance Limitations
The problem with platform-neutral code
is that most apps will run at their best when
the code used is written for the specific
operating system they are hosted on.
Apps written in more neutral methods
may not be optimized as well relative
to unique capabilities.

12. Con 2: Customization Challenges
The ability to customize apps and services around
specific feature sets can lead to powerful apps.
The same framework may not be in place elsewhere,
limiting a company’s ability to customize apps based
on the unique capabilities of a platform.

13. Native App Development Platform Technology
– Getting The Best of Both Worlds
Low-code app development solutions are
adding a new wrinkle to the cross-platform
development movement.

14. Low-code platforms that enable users
to mix and match pre-built packets of code
let teams create apps with the speed
and ease of a cross-platform system because
the raw code is already in place.
1

15. 2
Application development platforms
that offer this type of native low-code
functionality let users quickly create apps
by getting major capabilities settled natively
and quickly and then using cross-platform
development capabilities as needed for other
code segments, optimizing the ratio between
speed to market and app performance.

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