NativeScript AlternativesTop Android Development Tools and other similar apps like NativeScript

NativeScript is described as 'Lets you develop truly native apps for iOS and Android from a single code base of JavaScript or TypeScript, XML and CSS. NativeScript takes your cross-platform code and translates it into the language that your target platform speaks' and is a android development tool in the development category. There are more than 10 alternatives to NativeScript for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Android, Mac and iPhone apps. The best NativeScript alternative is WebViewGold. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try React Native or Apache Cordova. Other great apps like NativeScript are Ionic Framework, Appcelerator Titanium, WebDGap and Svelte Native.

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  1. WebViewGold icon
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    Convert your websites and web apps into iOS, Android & macOS apps in 60 seconds. No coding required, it just works. App Store and Play Store approval guarantee. Send push notifications & display AdMob ads to monetize your application. It just works.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
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  2. React Native icon
     43 likes

    React Native enables you to build world-class application experiences on native platforms using a consistent developer experience based on JavaScript and React. The focus of React Native is on developer efficiency across all the platforms you care about — learn once, write...

    45 React Native alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
    • React
     
  3. Apache Cordova icon
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    Apache Cordova is a set of device APIs that allow a mobile app developer to access native device function such as the camera or accelerometer from JavaScript. Combined with a UI framework such as jQuery Mobile or Dojo Mobile or Sencha Touch, this allows a smartphone app to be...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
     
  4. Ionic Framework icon
     41 likes

    Ionic is an open source app development toolkit for building modern, fast, top-quality cross-platform native and Progressive Web Apps from a single codebase with JavaScript and the Web.

    35 Ionic Framework alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • JavaScript
    • Sass
     
  5. Appcelerator Titanium, offered for free by Appcelerator, lets web developers use web technologies, open source and cloud computing to build native apps for iPhone, Android, Windows, Mac OSX and Linux.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
     
  6. WebDGap icon
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    WebDGap allows you to convert any website or HTML/CSS/JavaScript web application to a native Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome application.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Android
    • Chrome OS
    • Android Tablet
    • Self-Hosted
     
  7. Svelte Native is a new approach to building mobile applications using NativeScript. Where other JavaScript mobile development frameworks like React Native and NativeScript-Vue do the bulk of their work on the mobile device, Svelte Native shifts that work into a compile step that...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
    • NativeScript
     
  8. Uno Platform icon
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    Uno is the platform for building native mobile, desktop and WebAssembly apps with C#, XAML from single codebase. It's a Universal Windows Platform Bridge that allows UWP-based code (C# and XAML) to run on iOS, Android, and WebAssembly.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
     
  9. An open source native runtime that makes it easy to build cross-platform apps that run equally well on iOS, Android, and the Web.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPhone
     
  10. DroidScript icon
     5 likes

    DroidScript is an IDE that runs on Android devices for coding, testing and building apps to run on Android. Code is written in javascript with objects and methods for layout, controls, sensors, camera, web, files, etc.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Android
     
  11. Turn your website into a dedicated App for Android and iOS, online and in minutes. With Usage Statistics, Push notifications, Google Play Store ready, Earn money with AdMob, Source Code available and so much more. Free Sign Up.

    26 WebIntoApp.com alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
     
  12. Web Atoms is set of powerful tools (NuGet packages, NPM packages) to build native cross platform Xamarin Forms apps with JavaScript. With JSX, you can write UI instead of Xaml. And you can do push code (hot reload in production).

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary (MIT)

    Platforms

    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
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