5 Best Tools for Cross-Platform Mobile App Development

The demand for an omni-channel mobile experience has considerably increased and so has the market for cross-platform enterprise-ready mobile applications. It is highly imperative that the applications developed today are scalable and robust, besides being accessible across devices with varied dimensions, screen sizes and platforms. We list five of the best cross-platform mobile application development tools:

1. Xamarin
   

With a record-breaking investment of $45 million, Xamarin is slowly and strengthening its hold in the hybrid application development segment. With the new cross-platform IDE, Xamarin Studio allows Android app developers

to access free as well as paid pre-built libraries along with UI controls. It supports technologies like C, Java, Objective-C and C++ Interop.

2. IONIC
   

An HTML 5 app framework, IONIC is built using Syntactically Awesome Style Sheets (SASS) and offers rich UI components for the development of interactive app interfaces. It uses AngularJS – the JavaScript MVVM framework – to power app development.

3. Sencha
   

With a varied cross-platform mobile app development tools like Sencha Animator and Sencha Architect, Sencha allows enterprise app developers to build HTML 5 apps and transform them to native apps.

4. MobileFirst by IBM
   

As the name suggests, MobileFirst is an enterprise app development platform by IBM that supports the development of web, native and hybrid applications. The IDE, MobileFirst Studio, allows (iOS or) Android app developers to fully utilize existing HTML 5 capabilities, besides supporting third-party library integration with frameworks like Sencha and JQuery.

5. Appcelerator Titanium
   

An open source mobile application development framework, Appcelerator utilizes JavaScript in the development of native apps for multiple mobile platforms. The application development environment also offers tools for analyzing the developed app.

As a web development California, Clavax Technologies offers a diverse plethora of app development solutions for their clients from equally varied industry verticals. Furthermore, the Android app developers offer native, web-based and hybrid mobile application development solutions.