Cross platform approach for mobile application development: A survey

Nowadays, the use of mobile technologies is rising at an alarming scale. Due to this, more powerful and efficient mobile applications are needed in order to keep up with this trend. Since there exists several mobile platforms (iOS, Android, etc.), each one with different SDK (Software Development Kit) tools and specific development capabilities, application development becomes more complicated and expensive. The challenge is to come up with a solution that allows us to deploy in different platforms using a single SDK tool and maintaining the same performance as the native application. A suitable solution is cross-platform. In this paper, we present a survey of cross-platform creation approaches with an emphasis on the MDA (Model Driven Architecture) approach as it is one of the most promising cross platform approaches. We also identify and discuss the main desirable requirements of any cross-platform technology.