I could do with do advice of the nice people of devRant!

I want to develop a mobile app for iOS and Android, however creating native apps is just too much. I've found a solution for cross platform development such as xamarim, cordova, appcelarator.

I'm just curious to what your experiences have been and which would be a good route to go?

It depends on what you're doing really. I use Ionic (Angular)/Cordova within Visual Studio to develop business applications with minimal use of the phones API. I've only used the camera for taking photos/QR scanner and location stuff. It works well for that side of things. Although I think I want to learn how to use Xamarin as potential future projects require the use of more functions which I'm not sure can be covered with Cordova e.g. connecting to a Bluetooth temperature probe. In essence I think Xamarin is a bit more powerful and allows you to code in C#, which is a benefit if you're already an existing C# house. Means other devs can drop in and out without having to learn Angular or the ins and outs of Ionic/Cordova

I don't have much experience with it, but how about React Native?

@navster thanks for the info!

I've used xamarin and it's awesome. There is a minor learning curve but you can for sure grasp it if your competent.

Btw. Xamarin is a native solution for mobile applications. It's also cross platform.

@kalpitjain from what I read it is native. It compiles as native.

The catch is that it costs $$$ and its Microsoft. Xamarin.ios and xamarin.andriod are free and should have most things you need. For CRUD apps you'd probably need xamarin.forms and that license is 1000$ per year per developer

@kalpitjain lol ya. Typical
Microsoft

as someone else said it depends on your use case, if you rely heavily on OS features (GPS, Bluetooth, camera etc) then Native is your route. if not then a hybrid solution should work fine. Personally I like using Meteor.js together with ionic or something meteor allows you to create the Apple / Android projects easily

@zareef How well do Ionic + Meteor work together? I've used Meteor, not Ionic, and was looking into combining the two for a project.

there is a meteor ionic package that worked pretty well when I tried it. Just look for the package in atmosphere.

@zareef Thanks, I'll check it out.