Which platform is best for your mobile app—a native platform, a cross-platform hybrid, or a mobile web platform?
These are important decisions to make before you begin building your mobile app.
Taazaa’s team of mobile application developers can help guide you to the best platform and development environment for your needs.
Apps built on a native platform—iOS or Android—are able to take advantage of the full features of a device (e.g., calendar, camera, location).
Apple’s iOS platform is a closed system, meaning that apps developed in native development languages can only be used on Apple devices—iPhones, iPads, Apple Watches, and so on. The two languages for developing iOS apps are Objective C and Swift.
Apple Objective C is a relatively user-friendly language for those new to object-oriented development. The development environment is full-featured and scalable. Because it’s a C language superset, Objective C has many functions that deal specifically with graphics, input/output, and display functions.
Swift is Apple’s own language for iOS development. It’s an even easier and faster method for iOS development companies to use. Swift app development includes a feature called “Playgrounds” for helping iOS developers teach themselves to move from Objective C to Swift programming. Swift development can be used either in conjunction with Objective C or separately.
Apple’s iOS platform is a closed system, meaning that apps developed in native development languages can only be used on Apple devices—iPhones, iPads, Apple Watches, and so on. The two languages for developing iOS apps are Objective C and Swift.
Java is an object-oriented, open-source environment used widely in development for both Android and other operating systems. Java app development is easy to do, with code that looks much like C/C++. Java Android apps have access to extensive libraries for everything from logging to unit testing, for example. The Android Studio integrated development environment (IDE) contains built-in Java source files.
Kotlin for Android requires developers to write less code than Java does, which accelerates development. Kotlin also eliminates some Java-specific issues such as NullPointerException. It also offers access to all frameworks and libraries written in Java.