But, for the foreseeable future, these are the platforms that you'll want to be targeting. These three are in constant competition to try to one-up the others to gain more market share. When looking at today's mobile landscape, you'll quickly find that there are three big players, iOS, Android, and Windows Phone. Each platform will have their own SDK, defining the platform's capabilities as well as their visual components and characteristics.
This is primarily due to the inherent differences of the various platforms. Odds are that this will very rarely change. No matter what platform you're targeting, you'll still need to get data from services, databases, files, etc. By easy, I mean the part of the application that doesn't change regardless of the platform you're targeting. When it comes to writing any sort of software that you want to be able to run on different platforms, the easy part is the logic. As mobile app developers, we run into the same major cross-platform issues that others do, the user interface. Why should mobile apps be any different? The simple answer is, they're not. Developers have been attempting to accomplish this for many years with desktop and server applications written in Java or C/C++, and compiled to the specific platforms. The concept of writing an application a single time and being able to run it on several platforms is not a new one. This sounds good on paper, but it wasn't quite the case. Since these apps can be written in a single language, it only makes sense to want to write a single code base that would compile into separate apps for the different platforms and ultimately allow us to reach the world of Write Once, Run Everywhere/Anywhere. It's with quite a bit of excitement that we can now write apps in a language that is very familiar to us, and be able to distribute them to the big players in the mobile space, iOS and Android. Ever since Xamarin came onto the stage several years ago, C# developers have been delighting in being able to create mobile applications that target non-Microsoft platforms.
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