

Single tech stack to code for all platforms

Native performance and user experiences

Smooth on-boarding

Reduced time to market

Less maintenance



Mobile market is saturated with a number of devices and operating systems, which makes it a challenging task to create an application that work the same across any device. Then what about developing an app for a single platform? Which platform should you target? Android holds a larger share of mobile users while iOS customers spend more time on their mobile applications. What if you are planning to engage Windows app users too? In most cases, enterprises want to create an application that deliver multi-channel user experience thereby destroying competition and bringing businesses to new levels. Whether it is about operating on a shoestring budget of a small enterprise or boosting efficiencies inside a larger one, you need to find a solution to make mobile app development more manageable and affordable. And that is why you need to consider cross-platform mobile app development.As the name implies, cross-platform mobile development refers to “the creation of a mobile application that are compatible with multiple mobile operating systems”. Even though,suffered major setbacks in the past, it has re-emerged as a powerful methodology in the recent times. In fact, there are a number of cross-platform frameworks available, such as Xamarin, Qt, Phonegap, Ionic and React Native. These tools facilitate the development of mobile applications that adapt and follow design and interaction guidelines put forth by different platforms. In this post, we are going to talk aboutin particular and how it helps in reducing the app development costs.Xamarin is a powerful and popular mobile app development platform built by a team of developers led by Miguel de Icaza that created Mono. The Xamarin company was founded on 16 May, 2011 which was later acquired by Microsoft in 2016. Though it is a comparatively new tool used for cross-platform mobile application development, Xamarin community has over 1.4 million developers across 120 countries. Choosing Xamarin app development provides a number of benefits such as: