PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF NATIVE AND CROSS-PLATFORM MOBILE APPLICATIONS

Abstract

This article presents the performance analysis of a cross-platform mobile application implemented with Xamarin and two native applications for Android and iOS platforms. The results concerning the time analysis for selected activities were compared in order to determine whether cross-platform tools are worth using in mobile application development. Native applications achieved better performance, however in some cases the cross-platform approach allows for significant development time reduction without deterioration in user experience.

Keywords

• mobile applications
• cross-platform mobile applications
• performance analysis of mobile applications development