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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICAL THEORY (IJCSMT )

E-ISSN 2545-5699
P-ISSN 2695-1924
VOL. 10 NO. 2 2024
DOI: 10.56201/ijcsmt.v10.no2.2024.pg62.72

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Progressive Web Apps for An Effective Cross-Platform Mobile App Development

Oforji, Jerome Chikwado, Agbakwuru, Alphonsus O., Amanze, Bethran C.

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Abstract

The advent of cross-platform application development frame-works have made it much easier to create applications for multiple platforms for mobile devices. In spite of reduced learning effort, usually lower costs, and a faster time-to-market cross-platform methods always do not prevail in most cases. Although there are normal exclusions – like graphic-intensive games, which should to be programmed with the native software development kits (SDKS), choice between native apps, cross-platform generated ones, and Web apps can remain delicate. Whereas many diverse efforts have been made with respect to how cross-platform development frameworks ought to work, no technology is deemed unequivocally superior than the others. But a cross-platform mobile app have got an edge over native app development. This paper however looks into an effective cross-platform mobile app development using progressive web apps. It also recommends that developers adopt this technology of mobile app development due to its huge gains.

keywords:

PWAs, Web, App, Android, iOS, Windows, Cross-platform, Native app

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