Choose the Best Mobile App Development Technology for Your Next App

Oct 9, 2017
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We are not sure about which mobile app platform will help us to succeed. To help you with the solution, this post will make you aware with the pros and cons of varied platforms which will help you decide which mobile app development platform is worth spending time and money on.

1) Hybrid App:

The first thing to decide is whether to opt for hybrid app creation or native app creation. Hybrid app is well defined as a website wrapped in a native app.

Pros:

Hybrid Apps can be developed easily with not much of the development costs. Hybrid Apps involves majority of its code written in HTML, JavaScript and CSS. Porting the app to any other platform is considered to be a very easy task; it just requires some additional development work to complete the process.

Cons:

Hybrid apps have more of clunkier design which makes it easy for the users to identify it. They do not functional smoothly and are not polished they way a good native app is. This drawback of Hybrid App leads to a poor user experience. Not only may this but they even lack in delivering a complete portability. Following this reason, Facebook took a decision to not further continue with Hybrid App which lead to the creation of Native App.

The best time to create a Hybrid App is when you wish to create a simple app which would not last for a long time and will be replaced by a native app.

 

2) Android:

Pros:

Android App attracts majority of the android app developer as it allows the creation of an app easily with affordable phones, tablets etc. Android is featured with comparatively large user base and also higher potential users of your app. When you are in the process of publishing apps on Google Play, there are certain rules which needs to be followed, but publishing apps on other Android Marketplaces are free of rules.

Cons:

Developing an Android Apps has two major drawbacks. Android Apps cannot be created with a motive of generating revenue as it does not have much capacity to create more money. Also, Android Apps faces a lot of fragmentation which demands for much of the accounting and testing.

With rapid development of Android devices, undoubtedly all of us will have to opt for Android Version of the app sooner or later. Considering the goals of your app, if your motive is to get reasonable revenue, freeing yourself from the testing requirements, and also wish to have maximum number of users of your app, Android is the best choice in this case.

3) iOS:

Pros:

The matter of fact for iOS app development is that iOS app developer’s makes maximum money when compared to other app developing platforms. Development and testing process of iOS is simple and easy task.

 

Cons:

Android Apps does not come with much of the flexible app creation process. It pertains to a strict approval process which demands you to confirm to the Apple’s rules.  Checking Apple’s guidelines can help you to overcome difficulties you face while developing your app.

iOS apps leads to high revenue generation and also provides ease in the testing process. This is not possible with Android or any other platforms.

4) Windows Phone:

Pros:

In the prevailing scenario Microsoft still has influence over the technology world considering which there is still a small segment of population left who buy Windows Phone. In some parts of the world, the ones who buys Windows Phones get to avail the benefit of the incentives being offered which makes Windows Phone cheaper than the Android ones. There are very less companies who creates Windows Phone, this can be taken as an opportunity for the creation of an App similar to the one running on iOS or Android but is yet to be created for Windows Phone.

Cons:

Windows Phones have only 4% of the market Share. You may take to target the very niche audience, but Windows Phone will not lead you to the path of success. Just with a great camera, platform cannot be grown.

 

5) BlackBerry:

Pros:

Blackberry apps are now not much in demand, but it has some of the advantages. With an extended competition in other platforms, creating an app on blackberry platforms can take you to be the only one to do so. These devices are still a choice of some of the people and it generally leads to creation of high income. Blackberry provides much support to the developers and allows creations of an app in any of the programming languages.

 

Cons:

Blackberry is considered to be a slow web browser and does not offer a satisfactory experience to the user. The application store of blackberry is not user friendly. It offers the users with the applications which is not at all effective in the client interface. Blackberry has been designed in a way that it will suit only the corporate world and will not be able to fulfil the needs of a normal mobile client. Even in the prevailing conditions, it has not been modified. 

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