In
today’s era of smartphones, we wake up every morning with an alarm app, order
meals using a food delivery app and reach the office by booking a taxi on an
on-demand mobile app. We also book doctor appointments online and order
groceries using an e-commerce app. We are dependent on several apps for our
day-to-day tasks like never before. There has been a radical change in the way
people live after the introduction of mobile apps. This is the reason why so
many business owners and enthusiasts are looking forward to developing
customer-centric and customized mobile apps.
However,
behind such useful apps, there are several robust mobile app frameworks that are
the driving tools for developing an app. These frameworks help to develop apps
that provide an amazing experience to the end-users.
Undoubtedly,
the coming years will see several advanced frameworks emerging in the mobile market.
Yet, some of them will remain the favourite for the developers. In this blog,
we have explained about the top five mobile app frameworks trending in the year
2020.
Top 5
mobile app development frameworks in 2020
Flutter 1.0
Flutter 1.0
Flutter
was launched in December 2017 by Google. It is an open-source UI Framework used
for developing outstanding apps for web and mobile and desktop with a single
codebase. Though Flutter is new, it has huge potential to deliver
high-performing apps. It supports expressive and flexible designs. It provides
a rich native experience for both Android and iOS apps. It supports editor plugins
for IntelliJ/Android Studio and Visual Studio Code.
Flutter’s
official programming language is Dart. At times, Flutter is also called as the competitor
of React Native. Both the frameworks support cross-platform app development. Today, Flutter is stable which
allows easy and quick experimentation, adding features, building UIs and
solving the bugs much quickly. It became quite famous amongst the developers
across the world much before the release of its stable version.
Top Features:
·
Native experience
·
Widget support
·
Faster development
·
Expressive and flexible UI designs
React Native
Introduced
in 2015, React Native is a functional cross-platform framework and one of the
most popular mobile app frameworks. It is used for developing innovative mobile
apps for Android and iOS platforms. React Native is developed by Facebook and
it is built on top of ReactJS which uses Javascript. Developers can build
interactive, simplified and platform-specific UIs with React Native. The apps
built using this framework are highly secure and reliable. It is a stable
framework and has strong community support from Facebook. The Facebook team
keeps introducing new features, libraries, and functionalities to React Native
which is a big advantage to the app developers. As JavaScript is used, this framework iterates at a
very fast speed; any changes are visible as soon as the code is saved. Also, it
works conveniently with other frameworks as well. It is being supported by all
leading IDES like Xcode, Visual Studio Code, Android Studio, etc.
Top Features:
·
Cross-platform development
·
Reusable components for fast and consistent results
·
High security
·
Strong community support
Ionic
Ionic
is an open-source framework, used basically for front-end development. It is a very
stable platform and widely used by developers across the world. It was
introduced in the year 2013. It is built using HTML, JavaScript and CSS.
Cordova plugins provide much needed API for using native functions with JS
code. It has rich UI components and plenty of useful features to build robust and
performance-based native-like applications for native Android and iOS as well
as web. The apps built using Ionic have excellent look and feel. It uses the same
code to build apps on different platforms. This framework follows native app UI
guidelines and also uses native SDKs due to which the users get the benefit of
both- device features of native apps as well as UI standards.
Top Features:
·
Cross-platform app development
·
Corova Plugin
·
Framework Compatibility with latest Javascript Framework
·
Integration with Angular core libraries
·
Uses Cordova plugins
PhoneGap
PhoneGap
is a reliable cross-platform app development framework that was introduced in 2009.
This open-source framework was developed by Nitobi, previously known as Apache
Cordova. So, this framework is often called PhoneGap Cordova. It uses HTML5,
CSS, and JavaScript for developing apps. The apps developed using PhoneGap
provide high-performance and they don’t face any hardware limitations during
integration. It allows the developers to write the code once and deploy across
different mobile devices; while not losing its native features. This framework
also supports hardware features like Storage, Camera, GPS, Accelerometer, etc. The
developers find this framework easy to work. They can divide the modules in
different team members while working on the same project. It helps them to
build apps faster and saves efforts.
Top Features:
·
Cross-platform compatibility
·
Support to Native features
·
Robust support system
·
Strong backend support
·
Flexibility with web technologies
Mobile Angular UI
If
you want to develop a responsive and scalable app and prefer Angular and
Bootstrap then Mobile Angular UI is the right cross platform framework for you.
Mobile Angular is open-source and free mobile UI framework which helps to
develop HTML5 hybrid mobile and desktop apps. For simplifying the app
development, it uses the Angular framework and Twitter Bootstrap,
which form a great hybrid framework. It comes with awesome UI components like switches,
navbars, scrollable areas, sidebars, overlays, etc. It helps to develop an attractive
and intuitive user interface for mobile apps. For ensuring a better user
experience, this framework uses robust libraries like overthrow.js and fastclick.js.
Top Features:
·
Lightweight
·
Support for AngularJS Directives
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Responsive and intuitive mobile apps
·
Attractive mobile components
Final
Words:
A
few years ago, there were just a couple of native frameworks available in the
market to develop mobile apps. But with technological advancements, a number of
mobile app frameworks have been introduced that support cross-platform app
development as well. For an app having several device-specific functions,
native is the right option. However, if one needs comparatively simpler apps
with minimized development efforts, cross-platform is the best choice.
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