Top 5 Cross-Platform Application Development Frameworks

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“Android. No iOS. Windows? Argh!” Let’s face it, choosing the right platform to release your app on is difficult, so why not release it on multiple platforms to free yourself of the choice?
Cross-platform application development frameworks have made it a lot easier for developers to build apps for multiple platforms without spending a lot of energy writing the code for the same functionalities on every platform. What these frameworks do is that they allow you to write down a piece of code and then reuse the piece of code on many other platforms. Since the individual platforms have some parts which differ highly, the developers would have to code them. But the thing that makes these frameworks such a lucrative option is the fact they allow the users to reuse about 70% of the code. Moreover, it reduces the cost of development(in terms of money as well as time) by a huge factor!
With so many options in the market, it becomes difficult to choose one framework that fits your needs. To set you free from this confusion, I present before thee, the Top 5 Cross-Platform Application Development Frameworks(or at least according to me):

1. PhoneGap:
PhoneGap is a software development framework by Adobe System, which is used to develop mobile applications. To develop apps using PhoneGap, the developer does not require to have knowledge of mobile programming language but only web-development languages like HTML, CSS, and JScript. PhoneGap produces apps for all popular mobile OS platforms such as iOS, Android, BlackBerry, and Windows Mobile OS etc. It supports 8 mobile app development platforms(Android, iOS, Windows, BlackBerry, Symbian, Bada, WebOS, and Tizen). In this tutorial, we will focus on developing App for Android platform. This tutorial will give you adequate information about how to produce apps quickly using PhoneGap services.

 2. Ionic:
Ionic is a complete open-source SDK for hybrid mobile app development. The original version was released in 2013 and built on top of AngularJS and Apache Cordova. The more recent releases, known as Ionic 3 or simply "Ionic", are built on Angular. Ionic provides tools and services for developing hybrid mobile apps using Web technologies like CSS, HTML5, and Sass. Apps can be built with these Web technologies and then distributed through native app stores to be installed on devices by leveraging Cordova. Ionic was created by Max Lynch, Ben Sperry, and Adam Bradley of Drifty Co. in 2013.
Ionic Creator is a drag-and-drop interface building tool.

3. React Native:
React Native is a Javascript framework for rendering mobile application in iOS and Android. React is a Facebook’s Javascript library for building user interfaces which target mobile platforms. So now developers can make mobile applications using this Javascript library which can be shared between platforms that make it easy to develop in both iOS and Android.


4. Cordova:
Cordova is an open-source mobile development framework. It allows you to use standard web technologies such as HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript for cross-platform development, avoiding each mobile platforms' native development language. Applications execute within wrappers targeted to each platform and rely on standards-compliant API bindings to access each device's sensors, data, and network status.
5. Xamarin:
Xamarin is a Microsoft-owned San Francisco, the California-based software company founded in May 2011 by the engineers that created Mono, Mono for Android and MonoTouch, which are cross-platform implementations of the Common Language Infrastructure (CLI) and Common Language Specifications (often called Microsoft .NET).
With a C#-shared codebase, developers can use Xamarin tools to write native Android, iOS, and Windows apps with native user interfaces and share code across multiple platforms, including Windows and macOS. According to Xamarin, over 1.4 million developers were using Xamarin's products in 120 countries around the world as of April 2017.

On February 24, 2016, Microsoft announced it had signed a definitive agreement to acquire Xamarin.

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