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Visionmobile released a new report showing the cross-platform tools currently used by developers, cross-platform tools to be used in future plans, and cross-platform tools to be discarded. The survey results indicate that the market is not stable, and many developers prefer to find better tools.
Visionmobile, a market analysis and strategy company, conducted a survey to evaluate cross-platform tools (CPT) from the developer's perspective. More than 2400 developers from 91 countries participated in the survey across the globe. Visionmobile selects 20 most famous and widely used vendors and tools from a list of more than 100 tools: Adobe (Flex) appcelerator (titanium), appmobi, Bedrock (metismo), ansca (corona), dragonrad, Kony, marmalade, mosync, netbiscuits, Alcatel Lucent (openplug), phonegap, fig, runrev (livecode), sencha touch/jqtouch, Strobe/sproutcore, unity, unreal, worklight, and xamarin (monotouch/droid ).
The developers involved in the survey responded Based on the cross-platform tools they mainly used. The distribution is as follows: Mono is the top one, next, phonegap, runrev, and appcelerator-their respective users are very similar.
When the problem becomes all the tools used by developers, the result hierarchy changes, that is, the problem becomes the Statistics "without distinguishing whether the tool is the main development tool, list of cross-platform tools that developers use most ". The survey showed that phonegap ranked first, followed by sencha touch and Mono:
In the list of cross-platform tools to be used in the future, phonegap takes the lead:
However, a large number of developers are preparing to abandon phonegap in the future. The result shows that the market is fluctuating and developers are still choosing the best tool. Most developers plan to discard flex and think of Adobe's flash and flex attitude. You will find this result not surprising. The utilization rate and rejection rate should be combined to better assess how a tool will develop in the future:
In the survey, the reason why developers select a tool instead of another tool is arranged in order: 61% of people make a choice because "it supports my target platform "; 43% of people make a choice because "it can use my development skills"; 40% make a choice because "it is low or free "; 33% of people make a choice because "it can accelerate the development process"; 23% make a choice because "it is easy to learn "; 19% of people make a choice because "it provides rich UI functions"; 10% of people make a choice because "it can access devices or hardware APIs "; only 9% and 8% of developers make the choice because the performance and tools have good vendor support:
When it comes to user satisfaction in tool use, it is interesting that all tools have scores between 3.7 and 4.0, that is, satisfaction is almost the same:
2012 cross-platform development tool Report (PDF, 97 pages in total) it includes the methods used in user surveys and data processing, detailed information about the top 15 suppliers and their tools, and some general summary. It can be seen from the report that cross-platform tools are becoming strategic assets of platform vendors (Apple, Google, Microsoft, Samsung, and rim. Cross-platform tools are not only a supplement to local development tools, but also an element of the "Democratization" of application development. Diversified support (mobile phones, tablets, PCs, and even the coming smart TV devices) will be the "next new field" of cross-platform tools ".
