An Empirical Study of Cross-Platform Mobile Development in Industry

Table 1

Survey questionnaire results on framework familiarity, interest, and usage.

	Familiarity (Q#1)		Interest (Q#2)		Usage (Q#3-4)
Framework	Totals	Averages	Totals	Averages	N	N
(alphabetic order)		(max 5)		(max 5)	(Hobby)	(Prof.)
Cordova	-	-	-	-	2	0
Fuse by Fusetools	124	1.23	162	1.6	3	1
Intel XDK	132	1.31	147	1.46	2	0
Ionic Framework	289	2.86	281	2.78	37	17
jQuery Mobile	280	2.77	164	1.62	12	9
Meteor	-	-	-	-	13	12
NativeScript by Telerik	159	1.57	199	1.97	5	1
PhoneGap	338	3.35	306	3.03	47	32
React Native by Facebook	302	2.99	432	4.28	46	26
Reapp	135	1.34	174	1.72	4	2
Sencha Touch	174	1.72	138	1.37	1	1
Tabris.js	112	1.11	145	1.44	1	0
Titanium by Appcelerator	173	1.71	149	1.48	3	3
Touchstone.js	123	1.22	164	1.62	2	1
Xamarin Forms	166	1.64	166	1.64	6	2
None		-	-	-	14	30