
Whether the application is supposed to be built as a native or as a cross-platform one determines a lot in the further development process.
The main distinguishing criteria here is that native app development implies using the specific programming language for a specific platform, while in cross platform development you write a single code for multiple platforms.
Which sounds like a winning point at once – less work and a bigger range of the market at the same time.
What’s more, if you are building an app with heavy content on board, like pictures or videos, and complicated animation, native app development gives you quite good chances that your users won’t experience such issues as slow down or crashes.
Native apps interact with the core functions of the device which might be helpful for the developers especially when they want to access and take advantage of some of those functions.
Creating the same app for another platform means developing a new product from scratch.