Top Mobile App Development Tools in 2019

With new apps and new use cases coming each and every day, the mobile app development industry is on a boom for the last few years. However, it's not only the mobile apps and its use cases are increasing, but the development tools which can be accessed by the mobile app developers to develop a new application is also increasing. A few years back, we did not have any choice but to develop the mobile application for each platform from scratch. 

Moreover, according to statista.com, over 75% of people have shifted their requirements and luxuries to Androids and iPhones, which has become an increasing interest for most of the businesses. In addition, most of the businesses these days want to provide their products and services using their personalized mobile app. 

WORA stands for Write Once Run Anywhere. It refers to writing one source code which can run on multiple mobile platforms. Because of the increasing number of mobile platforms, mobile app developers are facing difficulties in providing a similar mobile app user experience for different mobile platforms.

In this post, we will discuss some of the top mobile app development tools in 2019 which can be utilized by businesses and mobile app developers to develop new apps for multiple mobile platforms. 

• React Native 

React Native is a mobile app development that is a JavaScript framework, for developing real, natively rendered Android and iOS apps. It is based on React, the JavaScript library by Facebook for creating a new user interface. However, it only targets mobile platforms instead of targeting web browsers. 

React Native can easily handle multiple mobile platforms. Most of the React Native APIs are designed for cross-platform, all you need to do is write for one React Native component, and it will work seamlessly on mobile platforms like Android and iOS. Moreover, Facebook claims that its Ad Manager app has 90% of reused source code across multiple mobile platforms. 

React Native is only React but for mobile apps. There are some of the differences between React and React Native: you will have to use <view> tag instead of <div> and <image> tag instead of <img> tag. 

Thousands of mobile apps are using React Native, from startups to established fortune 500 companies. 

• Xamarin  

Xamarin is another top mobile app development tool that allows mobile app developers to develop applications for iOS, Android, and Windows Phone natively, using the single C# codebase. With Xamarin developers can do anything with the C# codebase which they earlier use to do with Java, Swift or Objective-C unlike what is believed by most of the developers. Moreover, Xamarin allows you to use the same IDE, APIs, and languages every. Furthermore, Xamarin Studio has an inbuilt Git integration. 

With Xamarin’s cloud service developers can test these apps developed on this platform on various mobile devices. Xamarin also offers its own user interface development tool and provides online classes to its users via the Xamarin University program. Moreover, Xamarin recently signed partnership contracts with Microsoft, Xoriant, and IBM. 

• Appcelerator Titanium 

Appcelerator Titanium allows mobile app developers to use native APIs which leads to a performance win. Appcelerator allows mobile app developers to use their existing skills to develop amazing mobile apps by using JavaScript API and native platform-specific features across multiple devices. Moreover, it provides various add-ons like BaaS(Backend-as-a-service), app analytics and others. 

By using JavaScript, SDK in Appcelerator creates native apps for both iOS and Android while reusing 90% of the code base for all the apps you are going to develop. Therefore, it saves you a lot of time and money. 

The environment of the Appcelerator is extensible and open and can create apps for iOS, Android, Windows Phone, as well as hybrid and HTML5 apps. 

• Sencha 

Sencha is another popular mobile application development tool among mobile application developers. Sencha has multiple mobile application development programs like Sencha IDE plugins, Sencha Architect, and others. However, despite having a wider range of tools, Sencha is one of the best mobile application development tools among mobile application developers. Sencha provides quicker delivery by saving the time of the mobile app developers by using pre-built components. 

Sencha developers can write their source code in HTML5. Once the code is written or converted into an HTML5 format it very easy and quick to use it on both iOS and Android. All you need is to translate the source code using other tools like PhoneGap. 

• PhoneGap 

PhoneGap is a mobile application development tool developed by Adobe. It offers various services like PhoneGap build, which is a cloud-based solution and PhoneGap, an open-source solution. The PhoneGap tool is based on Apache Cordova. 

PhoneGap is the best option for developing new mobile applications by using existing web technologies. PhoneGap tool is best suited for those apps which do not make the use of mobile device’s native features. Other than, is an open-source tool another benefit of PhoneGap is that it has maintained the SDK for each mobile platform created by the mobile application developers. 

Another benefit of PhoneGap is that it provides a variety of plugins that allow developers to utilize their web skills. Furthermore, it allows developers to create iOS and Android apps by supporting cloud of respective platforms without any need for local SDKs. Meaning that a non-Mac user can easily develop a new mobile application for iOS. 

• Corona 

Corona comes with the SDK which allows developers to develop gaming apps for Android and iOS seamlessly, by writing a few lines of code you can make your gaming app up and running. This tool supports Lua and HTML programming languages. Moreover, it totally depends on the time and situation whether you are required to develop a native mobile app platform or cross-platform framework. 

This tool is optimized for 2D gaming graphics and helps in making the game 10 times faster from scratch. Corona makes the use of Lua because it is found to be really robust with a smaller footprint for mobile apps. 

Conclusion 

These were some of the best mobile application development tools one can use to make their applications for multiple platforms. Therefore, a study of all tools before choosing any one of them. 

 If you are a business owner and looking for a mobile app development company in India, there are many options and you should choose the right company as per your project needs. I hope you like this blog. If you have any queries, you can ask through the comment box.