If the business on different platforms is a new reality, a cross-platform framework offers the key! As an affordable and efficient business tool in the online space, no one can turn a blind eye for the cross-platform apps. The idea of cross-platform app development started skyrocketing because of the number of benefits it offers to the organizations irrespective of the size, revenue, and model. In today’s world, there has been a paradigm shift in establishing the right business strategies; most companies are swapping from websites to mobile applications. As the mobile app industry is also going through one of the challenging phases, choosing the right framework with an apt platform and development process becomes important. Let’s take a deep dive in some of the leading cross-platform app development framework that will be a boon to the developers in 2019 and beyond. 1. Ionic : One Codebase. Any Platform Ionic is a reliable cross-platform mobile app development framework, which is cementing its footprints nowadays. It’s among the most widely used tools to develop hybrid mobile apps for various Smartphone OS devices. Moreover, it’s an enterprise-ready framework to create a dynamic, safe & complex app for multiple industries. Ionic works on technologies like HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript and SASS. This open source & free hybrid mobile app development framework is beneficial for creating alluring and efficient user interfaces for your app. Above all, it uses a single codebase to build an app for different app stores. You can create smart & interactive UI’s

There is no doubt that this is the time of mobility and that’s why there is a huge demand for mobile phones and mobile apps installed on them in the market. Lately even mobile apps have evolved from being a simple app to an important and much advanced business utility. So many entrepreneurs have understood the benefits of mobile apps hence they have developed mobile apps as a minimum viable product (MVP) for their businesses. Right now there are mainly two platforms of smartphone brands which are popular and have most of the market share. These are Android with around 85% market share and iOS with about 13% market share. In the initial days of mobile app development, it was mostly preferred to develop native mobile applications. But, with the growth of mobile device users, the use of mobile applications and the fragmentation of mobile devices, businesses have realized the immense benefits of multiplatform app development. Research reports say that mobile apps are expected to generate around $ 189 Billion of revenues via app stores and in-app advertising by 2020. As per Statista report, right now there are about 2.1 million mobile apps available in the Google Play Store and around 2 million mobile apps in the Apple App Store. As we said, most businesses now go for Hybrid App Development and therefore hybrid mobile applications are becoming the center of attraction as they can run on any platform. In this article, we have discussed the major benefits of using

In all our articles, we always talk about the updated technologies that come to the IT industry and which affects the processes implemented by the Android app developers and iOS app developers as well. In this article, we have come with an amazing news which helps in cross platform app development for the app developers. You may now think that what are we going to talk about! Oracle has sent out a news telling that JavaFX is now available to use by the app developers. Now, one may think what JavaFX is made for and what is the use of this platform? Just for your information, we want to tell you that it is actually a rich client Java which helps in creating a better UI or UX of the app. Success of the app is mostly based on the UX of the app. If the user is able to connect easily with the app with the help of interactive user interface of the app, then it is certainly possible that the users will retain on your app as they will be able to not only use the app, but also find it easy to retain on the app because of the impressive UX. All that a user wants from the app is certainly the ease of navigating through the app as well as unique and exciting features that can keep them glued to the app. What’s the news about JavaFX from Oracle? Amazing news is that Oracle has announced

Now as we can see, mobility has become an integral part of the digital world and it is now highly affecting businesses, society and the economy in general. The emerging technologies and the mobile app engagement has changed the lives and work of millions of people, enterprises and e-commerce businesses in such a way that mobile first approach has become their preferred strategy. No doubt every organization wants to reach large number of customers to increase their revenue and penetrating in the smartphone users market can really make it happen easily. That’s why mobile app development is playing a key role for most of the businesses. But there is one challenge in this and that is – smartphone users who are the potential customers use different devices, versions, platforms or the operating systems and more options are coming each other day. Hence the organizations have to make a choice as to build their mobile app for which platform or option. They can go for either react native app development like for Android, iOS or Windows or they can go for cross-platform app development. In this article we will explore more about the Cross Platform Mobile Development and also its benefits and why you should switch to it in today’s market scenario. Let’s start by first understanding native and web applications with their advantages and disadvantages Native Apps Native apps are the applications that are installed through an App Store like Google Play or Apple App Store and are accessed through

Mobile apps have become a necessity in this technology-driven world. When everyone owns a smartphone, whether an Android or an iOS, having an app for your business becomes so much necessary that you would definitely need to hire a mobile app developer who is well-versed in creating apps that can bring popularity and profits to any company who invests into getting an app built for the brand. It has been always been a hot debate that whether Cross Platform Mobile Development is beneficial or is it native app development, that will yield more revenue and profit as compared to each other. Well, we can’t say that one is better than the other but it is all about the differences that we should be bothered on understanding and then compare the preferences by keeping them parallel each other. In this article, we will try to enlist the pros as well as cons of not only cross platform Mobile App Development but native app development as well in another blog. Then, it’s up to you whether you want to choose a developer who is expert at native or cross-platform app development or a company if you wish to hire an agency for better team support and exceptional app development processes! All you need to know about the cross-platform development If we go by the literal term- cross-platform mobile development means that the app can be run on any platform, whether it’s an Android smartphone or an iOS app. The developers don’t need

NFC Payment Apps or Near Field Communication Apps have become very popular now a days and are widely used today in various industries like retail, banking etc. NFC is a simple method of contactless communication of data between two devices which are placed closely i.e within a distance of less than 20 cm. This technology has already been adopted in so many countries across Asia, Europe and North America. NFC mobile payments are used in UK since 2011 hence even if you have never owned an NFC supported smartphone, still you may have used it. NFC technology provides a secure architecture and compatible framework for application provider companies to use the technology for mobile payment capabilities i.e peer to peer money exchange. As NFC apps are secure hence they provide unique opportunity for the Mobile  App Creator or app developer to integrate NFC app payment into their mobile apps as it is highly needed so many times. How Does NFC Payment App Works? NFC has been build upon RFID systems and allows two way communication between endpoints while the earlier systems like contactless smart cards were only one way. NFC has been used in Android devices since Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich version with a name Android Beam which was first launched in Google Nexus smartphones. While processing NFC mobile payments, Android Beam uses NFC to enable Bluetooth on both devices, pairing them instantly and then disabling Bluetooth automatically on both the devices once the desired transaction is completed. NFC

Increasing number of app developers are resorting to the use of Xamarin development and design tools. Thanks to the cross platform app development that Xamarin facilitates and developers are able to create iOS apps as well as Android apps without worrying much about the code modification, thus saving a lot of time and highly dynamic apps are delivered to the clients according to their business requirements. Why choose Xamarin over other development platforms? Before we move on to discussing the design tools to create amazing and high-end mobile apps with this technology, it is important to be familiar with the Integrated Development Environment for Xamarin app development. A very popular one among the app developers, it helps develop hassle-free Android, iOS as well as Windows-based apps which involves using C# as well as Visual Studio. Code sharing and compiling becomes very easy with Xamarin. Why Xamarin is preferred is because of the fact that the apps built in this platform have best UI, amazing performance of that of a native app and best features. It will be awesome if you can read a “Get Started” guide before jumping straight into the nuances of this development platform. If you are a new developer, it would be beneficial to read about the tools that we are going to mention below:   Compatible Integrated Development Environments of Xamarin 1. Modern and Sophisticated Visual Studio This integrated development tool helps the Xamarin developer to create cross-platform apps with a lots of features that are