In recent years, the mobile computing sector has been having quite a revolution.Mobile computing devices have shed loads of weight, gone slim, achieved mass popularityand a great market penetration. But one of the challenges that has been part ofmobile computing is technology and device fragmentation leaving application developersfor mobile phones bewildered. Platform developers, device manufacturers comewith so many features and functionalities that it has been dicult to provide developerswith an easier means of developing applications and running the application onevery mobile device.To solve that, cross platform tools have been investigated and was found to solvedevice functionality features, platform and device coverage problems. It was alsonoted that cross platform development was found to be cheaper and takes less time.Even though tool selection in cross platform development was dicult, it wassuggested that Appcelerator Titanium and Xamarin were picked as a preliminarystarting point.