Abstract
There is a wide range of different approaches and tool for cross-platform mobile application development. We studied the performance characteristic of the mobile applications developed with a number of common approaches and tools for mobile application development, including the native SDK's of Google Android and Apple iOS, and cross-platform tools of Apache Cordova, Microsoft Xamarin, and Appcelerator Titanium. The data reveal insights to the designs and trade-offs of different approaches and offer guidance in selecting the appropriate approaches based on their respective performance characteristics.