Cross Platform Glossary

Browse 12 cross platform terms defined in plain English, from the cultural dictionary of computing.

12 Cross Platform Terms

Dart
A client-optimized programming language developed by Google, primarily known as the language behind the Flutter UI framework. Dart supports both ahead-of-time...
Flutter
Google's open-source UI toolkit for building natively compiled applications for mobile, web, and desktop from a single Dart codebase. Uses its own rendering...
Flutter
Google's UI toolkit for building natively compiled applications for mobile, web, and desktop from a single Dart codebase. Unlike React Native, Flutter doesn't...
Hybrid App
A mobile application built with web technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) and wrapped in a native container to be distributed through app stores. Frameworks...
Kivy
An open source Python framework for building cross-platform graphical applications, especially touch-friendly apps that run on desktop and mobile devices. Kivy...
Mobile Development
The discipline of building applications for mobile operating systems — primarily iOS and Android — using native SDKs (Swift/Kotlin), cross-platform frameworks...
Mobile Framework
A software framework that provides the runtime, UI components, and build tooling needed to develop mobile applications — either natively (SwiftUI, Jetpack...
Native Bridge
The interop layer in cross-platform frameworks like React Native that serializes calls between the JavaScript runtime and the native platform APIs...
Platform Abstraction
A software layer that hides platform-specific differences (OS APIs, hardware quirks, runtime behaviors) behind a uniform interface, allowing application code...
Portability
The degree to which software can run on different platforms, operating systems, or hardware with minimal or no modification. Highly portable code avoids...
Qt
A cross-platform C++ application framework primarily used for building graphical user interfaces, though it also provides modules for networking, databases,...
React Native
A framework for building native mobile apps using React and JavaScript/TypeScript. Unlike hybrid apps (WebView), React Native renders using actual native UI...

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