Mobile app development tools provide you with full control over your entire development process. The downside is that it requires knowledge over your chosen coding language. However, this trade-off is undoubtedly worth it if you can streamline your app to perfection and have perfect control over your application.
HeadSpin provides companies with real-world, actionable insights into the user experience to enhance mobile results. HeadSpin prepares you for the growing challenges of resolving customer interactions in the dynamic mobile environment by offering comprehensive analysis of performance and user experience problems across every layer of the mobile stack-from client to server. The tool is available to thousands of devices across 150+ locations around the world. No SDK is required by the developers to expand the code base. Everything is API based. All the performance issues are prioritized according to their impact by means of Artificial Intelligence that is built into the tools’ engine. Headspin is available in dual versions i.e. Cloud as well as on premise. It is also available as a dedicated, shared, or pay-as-you-go version. HeadSpin is available on the devices with an uptime of 100%.
Xamarin is the popular native application development platform for mobile phones. It reuses layers of business logic, and access to data across platforms. It is commonly used for the development of Android, iOS, and Windows applications. Although it is built on C#, it runs on the .NET framework. This also allows mobile device communication with the APIs. Developers with a.NET background tend to build apps using Xamarin. This is useful for those apps when you need to implement functions such as offline mode, a large amount of local data and image recognition. It provides application indexing and deep linking, and generates less errors.
Another great tool that can be used for the creation of both native and hybrid apps is appcelerator. This tool is a favorite of so many developers as it decreases the number of programming lines and makes it relatively easy to use. It is built on open-standards and provides complete access to the underlying mobile operating system. It supports multi-region global deployments and has higher cloud capacity limits.
Launched in 2013 by Drifty.co, Ionic is one of the leading open-source hybrid mobile app development tools. This tool is suitable for different projects, and assists developers in different aspects. It is a cross-platform tool based on the Sass CSS language. Developers can use this tool to build apps that run with ease on various operating systems. It can be integrated with Angular JS and has a huge library with JS CSS components and mobile-optimized HTML. This tool uses native SDKs and follows native app UI guidelines. It also has an intuitive command line interface for building and testing apps across platforms and offers high code reusability.
PhoneGap is based on JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3. The platform is an open source application designed to help developers build interactive mobile applications using web technology. It removes the need to write code for all related mobile platforms, in multiple languages. It has direct access to the Cordova plugins library and also supports SDK plugins so developers can do more with native components like push notification and file transfer and add native components directly without code. The major advantage of PhoneGap is that it can be used for creating a single application that is compatible with all mobile devices, regardless of the operating system.