Enterprise mobile app development strategies and solutions

Due to the prevalence of millions of popular applications in the digital market, there are an increasing number of mobile platforms. Games, social media apps, website apps have played a vital role in driving the change. Enterprise mobile app development has been slower in keeping up with the revolution. However, we must admit that the trend is growing to become a norm and will be widely experienced in coming years. Many ingredients go into making an enterprise software development strategy, and development tools offer a unique approach to this. Let us take a look at these essential development tools for mobile.

Platform vendors like Apple and Google and Microsoft offers platform specific tools that offer great level of integration with specific platforms. It comes along with specific user interface capabilities plus the device-enabled services that developers find handy. The main drawbacks of vendor tools include a little focus on database and inability of mobile OS vendors to integrate enterprise data. This is because of the fact that games, general-purpose social media and online store apps usually drive the apps.

Also the coding is done in varied languages, using different development environments and UI designers. The complexity and multitude of tools double the development costs and it takes extra effort to keep several teams together on features.

HTML and JavaScript

This is the second best option for mobile development, using HTML and JavaScript. Developer can use available libraries that are conducive to the device. These libraries act beautifully as a bridge between application and operating system. However, capabilities and the features of libraries may vary. HTML sheets make UI customization possible but their interaction does not match with specific device experience. HTML and JavaScript might give you the advantages over using Vendor tools in the matter of common programming language and tools across the platform.

Multi Device solutions

The demerits of above two solutions give rise to the idea of a third solution for software developers. They want to build apps that are device specific and support UI, libraries and native execution. At the same time, the multi device solution approach is also expected to allow developers use a single development tool and a common programming language. These kinds of solutions are now emerging especially for the purpose of enterprise development.