Estudio comparativo de frameworks multiplataforma para desarrollo de aplicaciones móviles

Abstract

Ubiquitous connectivity is increasingly becoming from a service to a requirement, leading the mobile applications to be, nowadays, one of the most used means to connect with services and people. The incentive of this Master Thesis arises from the appearance of new frameworks to develop cross-platform mobile applications. This approach is not new, but these technologies are improving the resulting developments in such a way that they are increasingly becoming an option to take into account. This work expounds a comparison between the most recent technologies and programming paradigms. Concretely, React Native, Xamarin and Flutter are chosen given the support they have from the leading information technology companies, their current state, and the community of developers who have shown interest in them. These frameworks’ internals and features are analyzed, followed by the design and development of an application in order to benchmark their performance, capabilities, and limitations. Lastly, the results are presented in the form of a comparison to provide a perspective of the functionality of these tools and how they fit in the nowadays ecosystem of applications development.