Mobile app development has become an ultimate need of today’s hour. A number of businesses are now preferring to port their existing web or desktop applications to mobile apps. However, it is quite a challenging job for mobile app developers to develop or port an application due to many reasons including varying operating systems, UX designs, hardware capabilities etc. Hence, you may require special mobile app development tools to assist the mobile app developers in their work.
Important: Ask yourself these questions before choosing mobile app development tools for your project:-
A) Have you considered all the necessary platform/tool features you need for your next app development project?
B) Does your mobile app development tools support multiple operating systems?
C) Which type of app you want to develop for your business? Is it a web app or native or hybrid mobile app?
Since, mobile app development is vast so its app development tools. The tools can be categorized as given below:
- Conversion tools: Help mobile app programmers build mobile versions of the existing web app, desktop app or website.
- Low code development platforms: Help mobile app developers quickly design the app, prototyping, and launch the app.
- Integrated development environments: Help mobile app programmers to code in an easy way and to come up with the best app.
- Libraries: Provide mobile app developers with important APIs so they can add features such as file sharing, messaging, mapping to other apps.
One of the big motives behind the use of mobile app development tools is the “Cross-platform mobile app development”. A hybrid or a cross-platform app can be operated on the different mobile operating systems. Using these tools, mobile app programmers can easily create multiple operating-system-specific builds from a single page application.
Let’s have a quick look at the features/capabilities of top mobile app development tools first:-
- Push notifications
- Social media integrations
- Translation for multilingual app versions
- Update and feature-drop scheduling
- App analytics
- Authentication, authorization, encryption & device management
- Connection to SQL and no-SQL databases
- Front-end and back-end support for enterprise offerings
- GPS system integrations
- Publishing to App Stores (Google Play, Apple App Store)
- Offline app versions
- Photo & video integrations