What is a platform and what is a cross-platform application?

Ans: Cross-platform software means a language can run equally on variety of platforms – Windows, Linux/UNIX, Macintosh, Supercomputers, Smart phones etc.

Software that can run on multiple types of computer systems. For example, the graphics program Adobe Photoshop and the word processor Microsoft Word are both available for the Windows and Macintosh operating systems. Therefore, Photoshop and Word are considered to be crossplatform applications.

What is a Cross-Platform App Development? Cross-platform application development is about building a single application that can run on various operating systems, instead of developing different app versions for each platform .