mobile app usage is at an all-time high. According to some data, users spend an average of 2 hours and 20 minutes a day interacting with a mobile application. For the savvy business owner, this is a great opportunity to get in front of clients with entertaining, useful, high-quality applications. Given the wide range of available devices and operating systems on the market, it is not surprising that entrepreneurs and companies looking to enter the mobile app market are interested in creating apps that function on any device. Since cross-platform development takes a long time and requires different knowledge (Swift/iOS or Java/Kotlin), cross-platform solutions have been implemented over the years. These include Unity, Ionic, Cordova and React Native. These solutions are ideal for developing and running applications on two platforms simultaneously. In this article, we will see how to use Apache Cordova in the Android development environment compared to native tools.