Cross-platform development - Go with a cross-platform UI toolkit or native on multiple platforms?

Question

I\'m looking for some arguments to pitch to my boss and fellow developers.

We\'re currently finishing up the preliminary UI mockups and getting ready to move on to

Answer 1

Writing two font ends is a lot of work, maintaining two front ends is a huge amount of work, if you need your program to run on multiple platforms go with a multi-platform toolkit.

If you write platform specific front-ends, each using the state of the art tools for that particular platform, you will get a much better user experience - but the cost of developing and maintaining those will be on the same order of magnitude as developing the entire application from scratch for each platform (yes, even with MVC).