B4X vs twinBASIC

B4XUI custom views are designed, by Erel and other forum members, exactly with this in mind; custom views that act and feel exactly the same no matter what platform you target.

As mentioned in its website, "With B4X, anyone who wants to, can develop real-world solutions."

Erel Uziel is simply the most pro-active Soft-Creator/Forum Manager you will ever come across. If it has not yet been asked & answered, just ask and you will be answered withing minutes, and thanks to it being a trully international forum, this is achieved 24h/7d.

Support for Bluetooth/BLE, MQTT, TCP/UDP, Serial, NFC, Websockets, HTTP/2 across platforms makes it the ideal tool for IoT projects.

A huge productivity boost when you can run your apps on the devices and make code changes real time without needing to recompile.

No need to learn JAVA, C+, PHP, or any other complementary languages in order to achieve exactly what you need.

Produces highly optimised end results. Easy to use and quick to learn. When you know how to produce an Android app you near enough know how to produce an IOS app.

The fact that there are subtle differences between writing for different platforms is a huge plus - those differences help optimise your code and they're really not difficult to wrap your head round.

The speed of answer topics is amazing.

The tutorials help beginners as well as more experienced programmers grasping important concepts.

The Forum is filled with many code examples of fully working apps for free. Code snippets, animation, different type of views etc. can be easily downloaded and used in your own app.

Over the years it has built up a very active user community that is very involved in the evolution of B4X. In their forums you can find any answer to your questions, and if it is not there, they will answer you.

VERY Rapid Application Development, with tons of pro features.

Except the IDE for iOS. Even so it's very cheap.

Any code that runs in VB6 will run in twinBASIC (once v1 is released). Code that runs in VBA will also run in twinBASIC, though you need to account for any dependencies on the host application's object model (e.g., the Excel or Access Application object).

The lack of a runtime dependency makes twinBASIC applications very lightweight and portable. Additionally, compiled executables only include necessary code from any referenced libraries. The classic "Hello, World" program compiles down to an 8 KB .exe with no external dependencies.

Can be used to extend VBA functionality by compiling standard and ActiveX DLLs in both 32 and 64bit.

64bit compilation is supported, as well as 32bit.

At last there is a replacement for Microsoft VB6 - and for VBA too - twinBASIC programming.