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Mobile devices and mobile computing have made tremendous advances and become ubiquitous in the last few years. As a result, the landscape has become seriously fragmented which brings lots of challenges for the mobile development process. Whilst native approach of mobile development still is the predominant way to develop for a particular mobile platform, recently there is shifting towards cross-platform mobile development as well. In this paper, we have performed a survey of the literature to see the trends in cross-platform mobile development over the last few years. With the result of the survey, we argue that the web-based approach and in particular, hybrid approach, of mobile development serves the best for cross-platform development. The results of this work indicate that even though cross platform tools are not fully matured they show great potential. Thus we consider that cross-platform development offers great opportunities for rapid development of high-fidelity prototypes of the mobile application.
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Amatya, S., Kurti, A. (2014). Cross-Platform Mobile Development: Challenges and Opportunities. In: Trajkovik, V., Anastas, M. (eds) ICT Innovations 2013. ICT Innovations 2013. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 231. Springer, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01466-1_21
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