In this increasingly mobile world, how do you develop applications that work on iPhone, Android, and BlackBerry?
We recently teamed up with our friends at Gist to answer this question as part of a podcast interview with Michael Surkan at Practical Software, the official podcast for the Software Engineering Productivity group on LinkedIn.
We found that there is no silver bullet to mobile cross-platform development. For some applications the iPhone is a must, for others you need to be on the BlackBerry. In addition today it’s impossible to ignore Android.
Both Gist and Sensobi agree that it is important to use native features to build the best app possible for each device rather than trying to target the lowest common denominator in the hope of having a transportable code-base.