Tech Geek
Developers are often confused about which app development platform will be best – Android, Windows or iOS? Before selecting any platform, developers must know their target audience, strengths and weaknesses of each platform.
Several new mobile apps enter the market every day, developed by coders at all levels, using multiple platforms. Developers can now choose from various mobile platforms, including Android, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, iPhone, Symbian, Qualcomm BREW and Sun J2ME. This is great for developers, both creativity-wise and money-wise.
The popularity of mobile enterprise apps and consumer-based mobile apps has grown tremendously in the last decade. App stores are flooded with millions of mobile apps covering myriad topics and genres. Hundreds and thousands of new apps appear in app stores every day.
It is not always obvious which app platform is best for your application. As you have most likely noticed, not all mobile applications are created equal. Choosing the right platform on which to launch your app can be a key to your application's success or failure.
The Apple/Google duopoly is the safe choice. It commands a phenomenal Mobile Developer Mindshare, with 86% of mobile app developers using either iOS or Android as evidenced by our recent survey of 6,000 developers - and a staggering 42% of developers using both platforms. These numbers are no less phenomenal than the combined market share of iOS and Android handset sales which reached 92% of all smartphones in Q1 2013.
There are a number of considerations that go into the selection of a platform for building mobile applications. Yet, it may not always be clear which app platform is best for creating a mobile application. Each has its own .
