is cross-platform mobile app development really a good choice?

1. Introduction

The enterprise mobile technology market has been booming in recent years, with companies now moving closer to mobile technologies and recognising the potential impact of applications on tablets and smart devices on their businesses. This triggers a huge need for businesses to quickly develop easy-to-maintain applications across platforms. Cross-platform application development in this scenario, it began to be a big line.

"Build once, run multiple devices".

Now it's time to see if the potential of this cross-platform application development is really so corrupt, or whether native application development should occupy a larger seat in the entire mobile ecosystem.

In this blog, I will talk about the development of cross-platform mobile applications in enterprise mobile technology.

2. Enterprise Mobile Technology

The big line of today's mobile devices makes it very efficient and productive for companies to realize that sharing information across the enterprise or outside of a mobile device is a highly productive and effective channel. Today's entrepreneurs and organizations are already very sure that the blueprint for mobile technology is a timely one for them. This is because the development of enterprise-driven mobile applications today allows users to access the information provided by the Enterprise at any time, without any time and without access, to the needs of the various platforms.

By using mobile devices, organizations can provide instant access to all the necessary information at any time to employees distributed anywhere. This allows organizations to become more efficient and thus drive the forward development of enterprise mobile technology.

At work, we know that BYOD (bring Your Own device: Bring your mobile device) is growing in its way. BYOD refers to the fact that corporate employees should bring their own mobile devices to the workplace rather than take a desktop or company-provided mobile device to access the company's apps and data. This allows businesses to develop a unified set of mobile applications that can run on all possible mobile devices that use different network access services and are based on different operating systems.

When deciding on our mobile office strategy, we must first understand the needs of the users of your mobile application. When most of your target users are using the same mobile device platform, it is clear how we choose the mobile device platform for application development. But when your target users use mobile devices that contain iphone,android,windows, BlackBerry and other miscellaneous operating systems for smartphones or tablets, So if you want to easily get an application that should be developed to support which platform, the decision becomes complicated. At the same time, it is important that you seriously consider the application of the animation play, the interaction of the meaning of the flow of how much. If you need to use native hardware features such as a camera, flash, etc., I would advise you to write native apps individually on each platform.

3. Benefits of native applications

• Enhanced User Engagement : If you want more starter users, increased usage, and better or even extravagant user engagement, I would recommend that you develop native mobile apps.
• Smooth User Experience : In addition to attracting users, you also need to make users happy to use your app. From the brightest, smoothest and most functional, native applications are undoubtedly the safest option. This is probably the only option. In addition, it is well known that native applications have the most efficient response time for user gestures such as touch screens, multi-touch screens, multi-fingered pinch-and-swipe.
• easy integration with hardware-related features : When using native applications, when you need to interact with hardware such as Bluetooth, USB, Webcam, GPS, and so on, the odds of a problem will be lower. In addition, it makes the wireless functionality linked to other devices easier and more error-free.

In general, native applications have a better user experience, better user engagement, and better integration with the operating system of the target device than cross-platform mobile applications.

"Our goal is not to build a platform, but to walk between platforms."

–mark Zuckerberg

4. Benefits of cross-platform applications

• Make it easier to find potential users : Your app covers a wider range of platforms and you can reach more users. With Apple's iOS and Google's Android, you're on the top of your dead and my death, a lot of these two platforms are also growing in mobile devices, even though the winner of the two are not yet revealed. Developing mobile apps that can run on both iphone and Android devices should allow you to get more users, which makes your app easier to accept. Cross-platform mobile development apps can also help you overwrite other mobile devices based on operating systems such as Windows and BlackBerry.
• cost-effective : Developing an application that can run on multiple platforms can reduce maintenance costs. It's easier to deploy new changes and updates, and all the changes are automatically updated in each platform. This will save you a lot of money and will prevent you from stepping on the unpredictable pit of application behavior on different platforms. This also indicates that cross-platform application development reduces development and maintenance costs, thereby increasing cost-effectiveness.
• Integration : In this case, the development and design of such applications will bring a unified visual effect on different platforms. Using the same code to run applications on different platforms makes it easy to synchronize these effects.

In general, cross-platform applications are easier to cover more users, easier to maintain, and better unified to run on different platforms with the same code. Such applications can be developed more quickly, saving a lot of time, effort and resources.

5. Conclusion

If the operating system you want to develop for the target device is not yet clear, you should develop your app in a way that uses cross-platform application development. For example, as we mentioned above in the case of BYOD. Most enterprise applications run in this situation-your app's target users will be employees of that enterprise, and these employees ' mobile devices may be a variety of things (Heaven Zhuhai Branch rudder Note: I have done a real estate intermediary mobile project, the ordinary agent in the most is the iphone, Instead, the boss uses an Android phone, and if it's homemade! This is the time, the boss is not rich, go out to run business with a guest to see the boys are the façade, let customers see the intermediary employees take iPhone5, certainly the intermediary benefits, many people instrumental, good reputation! )! The final decision also considers the factors of development cost and maintenance cost, so this resolves why some companies prefer to develop their applications using cross-platform application development rather than native application development methods.

However, if you need to build a user-engagement application, or if the application needs to run on a target device where the platform has been identified, then you should use native app development to develop your app. If you have enough capital to make the application run flawlessly on different platforms, why not?

Finally, I would like to summarize, I must say, because the device-related features are now rapidly evolving rapidly, no platform can claim or prove that it is the best. Naturally, application developers in the world will naturally extend their interests to different platforms. If cross-platform application development is to become the only alternative to irreplaceable, then it will have to go through a long and arduous journey. Before you do that, you need to carefully consider whether you should choose to develop your application using cross-platform application development, think about whether your business needs to do so, and whether it is really more beneficial than native apps.

quoted English original : http://www.algoworks.com/blog/cross-platform-app-development-a-good-choice-for-enterprises/

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is cross-platform mobile app development really a good choice?