An Empirical Study of Cross-Platform Mobile Development in Industry

Table 2

Results from question on common issues.

Choices (ordered by N)	N
Overall loss in performance compared to native apps	63
Suboptimal User Experience (UX)	58
Immature frameworks (too cutting edge, too much risk, etc.)	55
Suboptimal options for creating good User Interfaces (UI)	50
Immature communities (too new/low activity, etc.)	35
Hard to integrate with device API	32
Hard to test/debug	31
Security issues	13
“Dealing with platform/OS/manufacturer quirks (especially Android)”	1
“Least common denominator feature set: your app’s features are limited to the intersection of iPhone and Android’s features”	1