Introduction
This report is intended for the Northport System software development team, or anyone else, who needs to decide an appropriate technology and practics for developing mobile application for both iOS and Android platform. It is for readers who have a basic understanding of computer science, software development, and mobile application develop process. The report begins with briefly introducing the reason for using cross-platform integrated development environments and investigating the pros and cons for cross-platform integrated development environments. Then follow by the options of cross-platform integrated development environments and their benefit and drawbacks. Lastly, conclusions are drawn and recommendations are made regarding which cross-platform integrated development environment is more suitable for developing application in both iOS and Android platform.
1.1 Reason For Using Cross-platform IDE
The most command practices for developing mobile applications were using the integrated development environments, also known as the IDE, recommended by the mobile applications platform. For example, the recommended integrated development environment for Android is Eclipse using the Android Development Tools Plugin, also known as the ADT Plugin and the recommended integrated development environment for iOS is Xcode.(1)(2) By using these kind of integrated development environment, developers were able to build, test and debug mobile applications.
The mobile platforms’ officially recommended integrated development environments have numbers of benefits. They are stable ,well constructive and well documented. Developers were often amazed by the iOS’s developer library and the Android’s developer library. Both libraries are...
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...pps was limited. The differences between iOS mobile platform and Android mobile are noticeably. So do their UI design. Extracting UI APIs across iOS platform and Android platform might increase complexity and reduce user experiences, as a result, Xamarin did not extract UI APIs across different platforms. However, that created another problem which is the user interface development is not portable between iOS and Android. What’s more, developers may suffer a hard time when they try to share the code outside of Xamarin. Xamarin does not allow creation of reusable components or modules outside of Xamarin. This means, if companies choose to use Xamarin, they can only stick with Xamarin.
1:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android
2:http://www.ibtimes.com/android-vs-ios-whats-most-popular-mobile-operating-system-your-country-1464892
Diagram: https://store.xamarin.com/
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