Cross-Platform Mobile App Development

As mobile Operating systems — especially Android & iPhone— wax and wane, the question open pops up – How does one choose which mobile devices to develop for and which devices to omit from your roadmap? Hence, Cross-Platform App Development is becoming increasingly more prevalent in today’s world. It is also known as multi-platform app development / multi-OS app development. As its name indicates, a cross-platform mobile app runs across multiple mobile platforms like iPhone, Android, Windows Mobile, BlackBerry, Symbian, WebOS, Bada, and tablets like iPad & Samsung Galaxy Tab. But first things first: what’s the need?

If you are a mobile services provider or an app developer, creating platform-specific versions of your app presents a great challenge. With so many platforms around today and more getting added by the minute, which platform(s) should you create your app for? iPhone? Android? iPhone and Android? iPhone and Android and Windows Mobile? iPhone and Android and BlackBerry and … Phew! And just imagine what it might do to your cost of development and time to market… let alone future app maintenance and upgrade challenges! And even after an epic struggle, your mobile app may still cover only a part of your target audience!

When you think of an idea which mobile users can use conveniently from their phones, it is highly limiting if your app works only in one “type” of mobiles. Something like the iphone was less known before 5-6 years and now is hot cake technology. Similarly, something which was most widely known like the Symbian OS or the Windows mobile OS have lost ground to other competitive mobile OS. There are even others which are no longer being used anymore. If your app idea is built with just that technology in mind, you would need to build the application from scratch every time you want to port it to another mobile platform. 

With Cross platform app development, that thing can be done with. Working with a cross platform mobile app team has its own advantages – from the very beginning, the app architecture will help in its porting to different platform while the need to build from scratch every time, removed.  In a changed world such as this, cross-platform mobile app development comes to the rescue. Using modern cross-platform mobile development frameworks such as Appcelerator Titanium, Adobe PhoneGap, Motorola RhoMobile, etc. one can create a cross-platform mobile app just once and deploy it to multiple mobile platforms like iOS, Android, BlackBerry, etc.

Companies like Mindfire Solutions provide expert cross-platform app development services backed by a strong track record of developing engaging cross-platform mobile apps using Titanium, PhoneGap, and RhoMobile. Whereas Titanium is considered to be one of the top choices for building cross-platform mobile apps by many, PhoneGap is a powerful an open source cross-platform mobile development framework, and RhoMobile offers an impressive suite of polished tools for cross-platform app development. 

Dedicated Titanium, PhoneGap, and RhoMobile teams at Mindfire have made deep use of these powerful cross-platform mobile app development frameworks and have successfully delivered many high-quality projects for global clients across diverse industries such as healthcare, entertainment, sports, retail, etc.