Software engineering is all about choices. Choices have to be weighed: performance vs. scalability, complexity vs. flexibility, pros vs. cons, and good vs. poor design. In mobile application development, we have arrived at a crossroads due too so many options. In fact, in our many years of software development, We cannot recall another time when there were so many choices. Today’s mobile application development environments make some of those choices look like child’s play. So the good news is: we have so many choices! The bad news is: we have so many choices and we must choose wisely.