By developing a cross platform mobile app, you’re given the opportunity to build apps that support multiple operating systems while maintaining one code base. This is accomplished by compiling the applications separately, resulting in native applications for each respective operating system. For the sake of preparing for future scenarios, we highly recommend that you consider building a cross platform application. Even if you are only compiling the application for one operating system, in the future you can always add additional operating systems to support. Another opportunity available to app developers is the ability to compile a Windows desktop application, thanks to the new Universal Windows Platform.