Cross platform mobile application development
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This document discusses cross-platform mobile application development. It notes that developing for each mobile platform individually is costly, while cross-platform development can help reduce costs by reusing code across platforms. The document aims to research cross-platform development by creating tests to measure user experience, application performance metrics, and network errors on real devices using different frameworks. The conclusion is that no single platform dominates the mobile market, so cross-platform development is important but will need to adapt as platforms and features continue changing rapidly.
Cross platform mobile application development
- 2. 2 Research Topic: X Platform Mobile Application Development
- 3. 3 Introduction Cross-platform mobile development refers to the development of mobile apps that can be used on multiple mobile platforms, easily create apps using the web technologies you know and love: HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
- 6. 6 Motivation More than eight+ major platforms such as iOS, Android, Firefox OS, Symbian OS, BlackBerry OS, Windows Phone 8, MeeGo, HP webOS, or bada with different programming languages and paradigms each currently struggle for predominance of the mobile market. Not even looking at the vast amount of different devices, the sheer number of app stores (currently 1000+) indicates a growing diversity of today’s market. When producing mobile apps, the key problem arises in the conflict between market penetration on the one hand and cost of development on the other. If you want to address the majority of today’s mobile users you could either develop your app for each of these platforms independently, or try to follow a cross-platform strategy in order to cut the invest. While the former means running several parallel traditional software projects (with all their individual consequences) in parallel, the latter approach tries to reuse parts of the intellectual achievements (often source code) while accepting other drawbacks.
- 7. 7 Difference in Native vs Web/X-Platform
- 8. 8 Research Object Creating a WebPagetest for Mobile Automating Tests on Real Devices App crashes API (application program interface) latency App load per period Network errors
- 9. 9 Methodology Measure the user experience & User interface Detailed Analytics Single user experience score User Flow Simple Implementation
- 10. 10 Conclusion As device specific features set are fast evolving, no single platform holds the key for getting ahead of others. Naturally, app developers around the world have to diversify their interest across various operating platforms. But cross platform being the irreplaceable future trend will have to go through an array of shifts in its approach.
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