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How To Develop An App For Multiple Platforms

By Alfred Beiley Published May 30, 2014 Updated October 2, 2022

The immense amount of hike that mobile applications development business has seen over last few years has led to emergence of new platforms and tools for applications development. The reason behind this is that conventional way to app development may offer robust behavior but the time constraint prevails; so cross platform tools came into existence. These tools can give you faster results with same efforts. Although it may not have many aspects that are exists in convention operating system development methodologies but it can be crucial when the demand is more and competition is high.

At the same time, smart resources of mobile application development have found out ways to build apps on multiple platforms with reduced efforts. With many operating systems that support different mobile applications in the market like Android, Apple, Blackberry, Windows and others; it becomes mandatory to provide app features to all OS users. Thus the phenomenon of launching the same app on multiple platforms has come into picture and gained momentum in the market. Now the next thing is to create such an app that is supported by multiple systems. Here are important tips for mobile app developers to create an app for multiple platforms.

#1. Building Skeleton

It is developers of apps that can depict the cumbersome nature of app development when it is started from scratch. Instead of developing and designing the complete application for new platform, it is feasible to use the same architecture and follow the guideline of the new platforms to give best results. Device centric approach must be followed instead of application centric one. The scripts, codes and the designs may just vary partial keeping the theme of the app same. This would also help drafting new versions or updates in the application. The skeleton of building helps to navigate the paths for mobile app developers and also forecast the architecture of same application on multiple platforms.

#2. Understand Target To Be Achieved

This is another important that must be clear to development team during the design phase of the application. By supporting multiple platforms for this particular app, what exactly suits the application wants to depict in the market. Also creating a global experience for your application is utmost important in order to get app rating successful on app store. This will help plan out the app development on different types of platforms. HTML5 and various other cross platform tools also support this app development in order to get the app live faster and persist in the market. By developing apps with cross platform tools, the role for app on each platform has to be intrinsically clear. This will help achieve synchronization on all platforms keeping fixed target in front.

#3. Transition From Single To Multi Platforms

The point although might seem easy from the developers perspective but it holds a significant importance when it comes to launching the same application on different platforms. There is a proper migration among all the codes as there needs to be compatibility with other platforms as well. On the other hand, auto adjusting applications needs to be developed by mobile applications developers in order to multiply the usage on screen devices. This is the reason why application development on multiple platforms can build a dynamic app to increase monetary benefits as well. This transition needs to be smooth and bug free. So the incorporation of all the testing and fixation tools has to be done in order to get satisfactory results for app development industry.

Thus easy ways for application development on multiple platforms can be implemented to drive app development business successfully.

Images: “colorful application icons with Hand holding the phone and tablet pc, isolated on white background/ Shutterstock.com“

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Alfred Beiley

Alfred Beiley is a writer who works with 360 Degree Technosoft - a leading Mobile App Development Company based in India, which provides best iPhone, Android and iPad apps development solutions.

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Contents
#1. Building Skeleton
#2. Understand Target To Be Achieved
#3. Transition From Single To Multi Platforms
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