The paper
Today, Android and iOS are the two most popular mobile platforms in the market. Many organizations are looking for ways to build applications that support both platforms and meet user needs. With two platforms dominating the market, cross-platform application frameworks are emerging. These frameworks are of great benefit to both developers and enterprises, who can more easily develop applications that support both platforms.
APICloud
APICloud is a leading “cloud integrated” mobile application cloud service provider in China. It simplifies mobile application development technology through side API and cloud API, and can help developers quickly achieve the whole life cycle management of mobile application development, testing, release, operation and so on. The low code efficiency tool Plus Mode released by APICloud provides professional tools for every role in IT projects, closely linking requirements analysis, product prototype, UI design, front-end development and back-end development, and reusing the front-end links based on industry big data, ultimately reducing a lot of repetitive work. Effectively improve IT project efficiency by 30%-60%.
APICloud has a rich window management interface, which can meet a variety of window switching effects, multi-window management, cross-window data transmission, which is not comparable to other platforms. You can choose any UI framework you like. Native javascript, jQuery, vue.js and other technologies can be freely selected. The APICloud APP template can be selected to reduce investment risks. New entrepreneurial projects can quickly export products through the APP template, and the project can be launched and operated first. After obtaining a certain number of users and capital, the APP template can be developed and customized again. This way we can achieve our needs and avoid a lot of detours.
Flutter
Flutter is Google’s mobile UI framework for quickly building high-quality native user interfaces on iOS and Android. Flutter can work with existing code. Flutter is being used by more and more developers and organizations around the world, and Flutter is completely free and open source. Flutter is simply Google’s new SDK for building cross-platform mobile apps. Write a code that runs on both Android and iOS. The programming language behind Flutter is Dart, which Google calls “client-optimized” for “rapidly building applications” on any platform.
Flutter contains a number of core widgets, such as scrolling, navigation, ICONS and fonts, that can perform as well as native apps on iOS and Android. Features that focus on native experiences can be released quickly. The layered architecture allows you to fully customize, enabling incredibly fast rendering and expressive, flexible design. With a millisecond hot overload, your application interface will be updated immediately after modification. Build native interfaces in minutes with rich, fully customizable widgets. Flutter does not rely on a set of native components. Instead, Flutter designs its UI using visual, structured, platform-based and interactive widgets, all rendered by the framework’s graphics engine. More importantly, Flutter leaves a lot of room for customization, making it a great choice if you want to design a perfect UI.
uni-app
Uni-app is a front-end framework for cross-platform application development using vue. js. Developers write a set of code, which can be compiled to iOS, Android, H5, applets and other platforms. Uni-app inherits vue.js and provides a complete vue.js development experience. The uni-App component specification and extended API are basically the same as wechat applets. Uni-app developers who have some experience in vue. js and wechat applets can quickly get used to uni-App and develop versatile applications.
Uni-app has a strong competitive advantage in six key indicators: number of cross-ends, scalability, performance experience, surrounding ecology, learning cost and development cost. Uni-app leverages platform capabilities gracefully without sacrificing platform features in the process of cross-platform integration. Uni-app can elegantly write personalized code for one platform and invoke proprietary capabilities without affecting other platforms through conditional compilation and platform-specific API calls at the same time. Uni-app supports native code mixing and native SDK integration. It is a Hybrid framework with better experience and faster loading of new pages. It supports weeX native rendering on the app side to support smoother user experience.
Electron
Electron (originally called Atom Shell[3]) is an open source framework developed by GitHub. It allows desktop GUI application development using Node.js (as the back end) and Chromium (as the front end). Electron has been used for front-end and back-end development by several open source Web applications, including GitHub’s Atom and Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code. Electron is an open source library developed by GitHub that combines Chromium and Node.js to build cross-platform desktop applications for Mac, Windows, and Linux using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
Electron provides a Nodejs runtime that focuses on building desktop applications while using web pages as the GUI for the application. You can think of it as a mini Chromium browser controlled by JavaScript. The relatively easy core extension for Electron, currently based on node 6.x, and the fact that gyp is now very user-friendly makes it easy for c++ and js to be gay. The Electron interface is highly customizable, and in principle he can do anything the Web can do. Electron is by far the cheapest, and most of them are reliable.
AnyRTC cross-platform SDK has included APICloud, Electron, Flutter and UNI-App frameworks, providing many developers with more choices and a better development environment.