Taxonomy of Cross-Platform Mobile Applications Development Tools

Most of the developers use the cross-platform mobile development solutions to develop the mobile application once and run it on many platforms. Many of these cross-platform solutions are still under research and development. Also, these solutions are based on different approaches such as CrossCompilation approach, Virtual Machine approach, and Web-Based approach. There are many survey papers about the cross-platform mobile development solutions but they do not include the most recent tools, including Component-Based approach, Cloud-Based approach, and Merged approach. The main aim of this paper is helping the researchers to know the most recent approaches and the open research issues. This paper surveys the existing cross platform mobile development tools, introduces a comprehensive categorization to the cross-platform tools, defines the pros and cons of each approach and compares the cross-platform mobile development solutions.