Cross-Platform Mobile Apps: Do They Fit Your Business?

According to recent statistics, the mobile market is growing at a fast pace. Nowadays, both small and enterprise companies are interested in the development of native and cross platform solutions. As a matter of fact, cross platform mobile application development started in 2011. At first, this type of mobile solutions has been much weaker and less functional than native apps, but today it can be a great alternative to native app development (for iOS, Android, WinPhone and other mobile platforms).

So what are the main features of such solutions, their main pros and cons? What will be better for your company?

Today we will answer to one of the most essential questions: what are the strong and weak sides of cross platform mobile solutions? We’d like to divide all pros and cons into 2 big groups: one referring to customers, and the other referring to developers. Surely, this separation is conditional, but we believe it would be easier to figure everything out.

Let’s start with the advantages of cross-platform mobile solutions:

Now let’s face some disadvantages of cross platform app development:

As you can see cross platform mobile app development is a very complicated (and sometimes even contradictory) thing and it can’t fit all types of business and mobile solutions. So, before you jump to any conclusion, we strongly advice you to contact mobile app development professionals for a free consultation.