Seven Mobile Apps in Seven Weeks

Cross-Platform Tools

Now let’s talk a bit about the cross-platform tools we covered in the book.

A Preference for Native

As discussed in the introduction, one of the reasons for choosing these three tools was that they produce native apps instead of wrapped-HTML apps. The assumption here is that native apps should be preferred. Even if there is a savings in development time to deliver a cross-platform app using a web-view app, which is only the case for a relatively new developer, the difference in quality negates the benefit.

This is a choice you can make for yourself, of course. Considering the trade-offs, keep in mind that with so many native cross-platform tools like the ones covered in this book, if the only benefit is a slightly quicker ...