In an article posted on techjury.net by Christo Petrov on March 12, 2019, it was revealed that 51% of the people on the internet in the United States Of America were online on their mobile devices.
Needless to say, mobile application development has been on the rise since-quite a while now. With the boom of smartphones came different operating systems.
Many of them failed in the cut-throat competition, even the giants like Microsoft had to accept their defeat with their windows for mobile platform but two operating systems prevailed.
The Iconic iOS by Apple and Android by Google.
After all who can forget the epic iPhone launch by Steve jobs himself which changed the mobile industry for good and the unimaginable customizability of android and it’s open-source community make it a strong contender.
Having different operating systems poses a major challenge for mobile app developers as they had to develop an app to cater to both the operating systems.
It used to be hard as developers had to develop the app twice, once for each OS. For Android one can use some good old Java and the official Android Studio platform to build some awesome android apps.
In addition to that almost around two years ago google made Kotlin their official language for android. But for iOS developers, one has to make the app in Swift or C# using XCode by apple.
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A major drawback for stock iOS development is that apple almost makes it impossible to develop iOS apps on Windows or Linux based computers. With all this going came the rise of hybrid app development.
One word seemed like a solution to all these challenges- “JAVASCRIPT”. That is right, now one could use up to 90% of the majority of the code written in JavaScript and use it to render iOS and Android apps.
One of the most popular platforms were React Native based on React backed by Facebook. Ionic is another hybrid app development platform based on angular.
The major difference between Ionic and React Native is that ionic is basically a website being displayed in the form of an app whereas react Native does use native components for each platform.
Another recently launched platform is Flutter, which is relatively new but we know it will be around for a while as it has been backed by google.
if you are an app developer wondering which platform to go for while developing your next app?
There are a lot of choices available and one platform is not perfect for all.
If your company has the budget and the resources, the native platform for each operating system is the way to go.
It might seem like extra efforts but the rewards are worth it! Fewer bugs, more stability and the freedom you get to interact with the hardware. If all you need to do is have an app which has little to nothing to do with the phone’s hardware Ionic will be the fastest and easiest way to get your app to the market in no time.
There are a lot of other platforms available out there and one should always weigh in the pros and cons such as Active community support and past experience while deciding on which platform you are going to use for your next app.