Top Platforms For Mobile Apps Development

Mobile apps are the hottest commodity in the mobile phone market today. With the increasing smart phone users, different companies are coming forward with new and better mobile platforms for mobile development.  Smart phones are very useful and entertaining and help simplify our life in many ways. Thousands of apps are available in each mobile platform and they can be downloaded and used for enhancing the functionality of these devices. The following are top mobile app development platforms for which apps can be developed.

iPhone

This is the mobile platform which needs no introduction, it was developed and released by Apple and has a strong hole in the smart phone market. Every mobile app development company offers iPhone apps development as this offers the most lucrative business prospects. iPhone app development has a big learning curve but it becomes easy with experience for the app developers. The language used in app development for iPhone app are Objective-C and Cocoa Touch framework. Mac is an expensive device needed for iPhone app development. Whereas, Xcode is a free tool which is provided by Apple for app creation. iPhone SDK is used for app development. iPhone is one of the best platforms for creating apps at the consumer level. iPhone provides good documentation and comprehensive APIs. App developers can submit their apps to the online Apple store and earn money from them. However, it is difficult to find experts in app development who can develop apps for this different programming style. Also, the hardware needed for testing apps is very costly and the app has to be first approved by Apple and then they are released into the market the revenue shared is 70:30 by Apple.

Android

Android is an open source for mobile app development which allows the developers to create apps for android phones. The programming language used is Java and the tools that can be used to develop apps are both PC or Mac. App coding can be done with Eclipse and Android SDK can be used for developing the app. The advantages of this app is that  the programming style is easy and comfortable for the app developers. It offers comprehensive APIs and neat documentation which is helpful in app development. The best benefit for Android is it is an open source technology for app developers and they are not bounded by Android. The open handset alliance provides a strong backup to this mobile platform. The disadvantages of this app is that not many handsets are available for this platform as it is new. As anybody can create and release an app the quality of the apps available online cannot be guaranteed.

BlackBerry

This is the best mobile platform for developing enterprise and business apps. app developers can choose between Java and .Net for programming, therefore app developers can choose the one which they are comfortable with. The tools uses are a normal PC and for Java users a plug in for Eclipse editor along with BlackBerry JDE. For .Net development plug in MDS Studio is available. App developers can choose programming tools and languages to their choice, however creating apps for different BlackBerry devices is tricky so developers must pick appropriate version of the app development tools for each OS version.