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Difference between native vs hybrid mobile app development
1. DIFFERENCE BETWEEN NATIVE VS HYBRID MOBILE APP
DEVELOPMENT
Android, iOS, Windows Phone, Blackberry, and Symbian etc. are the
leading Operating Systems used in Smart devices like Phones and
Tablets. There are more than 950,000 apps in iOS store, more than
750,000 apps in Play store and around 200,000 apps in Windows
Phone and Blackberry's play store. It has led to bifurcation among
users as a device can have just 1 operating system and hence have
access to its app store but not to every app store. Today most of the
developers are facing 1 problem i.e. they are unable to decide whether
to develop a native app or a hybrid app? This is an old debate and
there is no definitive answer to it. Before we answer this question let
us first understand out what native and hybrid apps means.
Native app: This refers to app built for a specific operating system
and can be accessed
2. only from the dedicated app store. Like app developed for Android can
only be accessed by Android users and is developed using Java,
Windows, C++ etc. whereas app meant for iOS are developed using
XCode/Ovbjective-C etc. This is a very expensive and very time
consuming as complete development process happens for a specific app
store at a time.
Hybrid app: These are the latest HTML5 apps. The biggest advantage
of developing hybrid app is consistent, cross platform UI that is compatible
with most devices. This is less expensive app development method but
cannot be used for every type of app.
Both have their advantages and disadvantages so we would list how to
select if the app has to be native app or a hybrid app?
1. Development Cost and Time: Hybrid apps takes least amount of time
to develop and are developed at a fairly cheaper price as compared to
native app.
3. Building a hybrid app means maintaining just one code whereas with
native code you need an app developer for each platform. But this does
not mean that native apps are bad because they have their own
advantages.
2. User Experience: Native apps provide the best user experience
because they are specifically designed for a single app store with which
one can get the best compatible apps. The screen size is taken care off
and so are the hardware capabilities whereas with Hybrid apps the user
experience takes a back seat as it is impossible to provide a good
experience with just 1 app for all platforms.
3. Paid or Free app: Since native apps have the best UI hence paid
apps are usually advised to be developed as native apps whereas free
apps can be developed as hybrid apps.
4. Type of app: Games are hardware and graphic intensive hence native
app system is preferred whereas apps where data has to render like
news apps then hybrid apps are preferred because of the simplistic UI
and less back end work.
4. Both the app systems are used today but the real question lies in the type
of app and its development budget. This is where we need professional
mobile app development company technology and process come into
play.
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