Hello geeks…
Do you fancy a cross-platform app: an application that can work on both iOS and Android platforms? Well, we come bearing good news.
Building applications and choosing the right framework for the application, and making it cross-platform as well as responsive is quite a job. With the technology world growing and everyday new technology and framework being released, it has become quite tough to choose from the list.
Previously, There has been a hustle for developing Android and iOS apps, separately. This results in more developer hours and costs. However, a decade back, a revolutionary lunch of frameworks came up with the “Code Once, deploy anywhere” approach.
Over the years, These frameworks have improved and come with new features every now and then, and have larger Dev-communities.
As the Developers love open-source and cross-platform frameworks, Below is a list of some of them.
1. Flutter
Flutter is an open-source UI software development kit created by Google. It is used to develop cross-platform applications for Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, Windows, Google Fuchsia, and the web from a single codebase.
Being Open-source, cross-platform, and developed by google are three USPs of Flutter. Indeed it has a wide community and well-managed documents
Also, Google has announced Flutter 3 in its Google I/O 2022. Which means it has come up with improvements and new features.
2. React Native
React Native is an open-source UI software framework created by Meta Platforms, Inc(Basically Facebook). It is used to develop applications for Android, Android TV, iOS, macOS, tvOS, Web, Windows, and UWP by enabling developers to use the React framework along with native platform capabilities.
As React Native uses React, It will be a walk in the park, for React/Javascript Developers to develop apps using React Native.
Like Flutter, Framework has become a top choice of Developers to build Native and Hybrid Apps, React and React Native has Larger Developer Communities and a document base, and cherry on top — Developed by Facebook Developers.
3. Ionic
Another open-source mobile toolkit for building high-quality, cross-platform native and web app experiences. Move faster with a single code base, running everywhere with JavaScript and the Web.
Iconic gives excellent support for web apps, compare to Flutter.
Iconic’s USPs are open-source, cross-platform, enabling development for React.js, vue.js, angular.js, and other Javascript frameworks as well.
4. Apache Cordova (Formerly Knowns as Phonegap)
Apache Cordova is an Open Source framework that helps build hybrid applications which work on most mobile platforms such as Android, iOS, Blackberry, and Windows Phone among others. The framework provides a container that bridges the native APIs to the web view.
Apache Cordova makes the application development simpler using CLI. It’s a developer-friendly cross-platform development framework to build apps using CSS3, HTML, and JavaScript.
All of the mentioned Frameworks are keep working towards maintenance and new releases, henc — Their upcoming versions come with power-packed features to smoothen the cross-platform development.
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