I would like to know your experience when using cross-platform tools for developing mobile applications. What is your experience mainly the possibilities and drawbacks of each one?
That would depend, as you have several types of cross-platform frameworks (tools).
A framework like Phonegap will output apps that render within a WebView. There will be potential performance issues and limitations when using WebViews, but it depends on your use (case). If you want to create hybrid apps (WebView-based), check out Ionic Framework, building on Cordova and Angular.
Another approach to cross-platform, is React Native (or NativeScript, Tabris.js, etc.), where you still write JavaScript for (business) logic, but the user interface is actually native in that it doesn't render to a WebView, but you get actual (or closer to than Hybrid) native performance. Perhaps you should check it out as well.
Thank Andreas for your answer. Do you have any experience with tools like Xamarin ?
Sorry, I don't have any experience with it. I guess I would have gone with Xamarin if I needed Windows Phone support, a mature tech and/or because of C#.
Thank you guys.
I don't have any experience with Xamarin but it seems to be a good choice for cross-platform development of native mobile applications that need to access all the hardware. According with the company it has over 1 million developers all over the world and it has a partnership with Microsoft, however, the pricings can be a problem in some projects like the one I have in hands.
I've never heard of libGDX, but from what I see on the website, it seems to be a good option that I will test. Thank you Silvino.
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