# Why Cross-Platform Mobile Development Is More Practical in the Flat Design Era

DevFeed: [Why Cross-Platform Mobile Development Is More Practical in the Flat Design Era](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/cross-platform-mobile-still-better-than-naive-in-age-of-flat-design-19274.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.codenameone.com/blog/cross-platform-mobile-still-better-than-native-in-age-of-flat-design/>)

Author: Shai Almog

Published: 2016-09-26T00:00:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [CodeName One](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/codename-one.md>)

Topics: [cross-platform](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cross-platform.md>), [Mobile](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/mobile.md>), [Code](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/code.md>), [App](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/app.md>), [Windows](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/windows.md>)

Tags: [app](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/app.md>), [code](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/code.md>), [cross-platform](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cross-platform.md>), [mobile](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/mobile.md>), [platform](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/platform.md>), [platforms](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/platforms.md>), [windows](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/windows.md>)

## AI overview

The article argues that flat design has made iOS and Android applications more visually similar, improving the practicality of cross-platform development. It also discusses improved tool performance, user expectations for feature parity, and the growing need to support Windows 10 alongside mobile platforms.

## Source excerpt

A few years back I wrote an article for O`Reilly covering the advantages of cross platform over native OS code. Almost 3 years have passed and a lot has changed in our industry so I wanted to re-examine how this impacts my perspective on cross platform vs. native. I can sum up the sentiment in a single sentence: "Cross platform is both more essential & more practical than ever before!".