Software reuse is the process of using existing software components to create new software systems and it facilitates the increase of productivity, quality, reliability and the decrease of cost and implementation time.

While code is the most common reusable component, other components and assets produced during the software development process can also be reused e-g software designs, specifications, prototypes, tests cases, data, frameworks, and documentation etc.

In mobile applications development, software reuse can be achieved to a wide extent in the case of single-platform application development.

In native applications development approach, a single application is developed multiple times to support multiple mobile platforms. This makes software reuse very difficult.