In general what I and the rest of the company I work for have found is that those "write-once-run-anywhere" platforms never give you a good solution, and in many cases end up adding more work than they save you. The main problem with them is that they are inherently limited to a "lowest common denominator" approach. They have to support only the things that can be supported on all of their platforms. Worse yet, they often fail horribly when it comes to scalability and things that are peculiar to a specific platform.
Additionally, you will never fully get the "feel" of a truly native app. Keep in mind that the two platforms are very different even ignoring the different programming languages and APIs they use. Their whole design language is different. iOS tends to use tabular navigation heavily whereas Android uses more dashboards. iOS tabs are typically on the bottom, Android's are on the top. Horizontal swipe gestures are much more common on Android. There's a huge list of differences that transcend simply rewriting the code. If you're not willing to respect those differences, write a web-app optimized for mobile. It's definitely cheaper and you won't have to worry about conforming to any particular platform. If you'd rather invest the time seeking a native solution, then go fully native and design and write for each platform. On Sunday, March 11, 2012 11:34:42 PM UTC-7, ALi wrote: > > Hi, We are interested to develop CRM business app for Android, iphone > using multiplatform > But we are confused to select and finalize one platform. > Like Adobe Flex, Titanium, RhoStudio Sencha etc.. > Which should we select to start working on it so its not be a problem > in future for compatibility. > Any guide, Suggestions. > Thanks -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
