Cross-platform development

The term cross-platform application development refers to the process of creating a software application that can run on multiple operating systems. In this book, we will not try to answer the question of why, but how – more specifically, will try to create a cross-platform application using the toolset provided by Microsoft and .NET Core.

Before we start talking about .NET Core, let's take a look at the process of developing an application for multiple platforms. Faced with the cross-platform requirement, the product team can choose multiple paths that will lead the developers through different application life cycles.

Throughout this book, we will have hypothetical user stories defined for various scenarios. We will start with an overall user story that underlines the importance of .NET Core:

In order to meet these demands, we can choose to implement the application in several different ways:

• Fully native applications
• Hybrid applications
• Cross platform