10.12 Other Mobile App Platforms and Porting Your Apps
According to statista.com, users will download approximately 225 billion apps in 2016 and almost 270 billion in 2017.8 By porting your Android apps to other mobile app platforms (Fig. 10.13), especially to iOS (for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch devices), you could reach an even bigger audience. There are various tools to help you port your apps. For example, Microsoft provides tools that iOS and Android developers can use to port apps to Windows, and similar tools exist for porting Android apps to iOS and vice versa.9 Various cross-platform app-development tools are also available (Fig. 10.14).
Get Android How to Program, 3/e now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
