What is a Hybrid app?

Seeing the upward trend in sales of smartphone devices, many organizations are adopting ways to incorporate mobile apps for customizing customer experience of their business, in order to enhance their market coverage.

For the development of the app, the organizations have to plan about various types of processes. Well, before going for the app, the user has to decide upon the way in which they would like to develop and release the app. During the initial research for the development of the mobile app, you might have found a couple of ways.

Most of the organization face a common question, such as, what should be built — native app or hybrid app? Which will be the best for the business? The answers to the queries depend on factors such as the following:

For a better decision, let us take a look at the differences between hybrid and native app. Also, we will list out the pros and cons of the two, to help you understand which approach will be best suitable for your app idea.

A hybrid app is a program that is built using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript and wrapped in a native container. The native container loads maximum information on the page as soon as the user navigates the application. There are plenty of native web frameworks available, which can help you build a hybrid app.

The main features of a typical hybrid app are:

A native app is an application that has been coded in a specific programming language, for the specific platform. For instance, Objective C is used for iOS or Java for Android Phones. These apps can take advantage of OS features and other software tools that are installed on that platform. They also have access to various phones functions. Mostly Native apps are compiled into machine code. Native apps perform the best in a mobile device because of such accessibility.

The native development is easy and there are numerous resources available, but it might not be understandable to everyone. Since the code has to be written specifically for each platform, it has to be rewritten for each one. Only the logic remains the same but the language, APIs and the development process might be different. Sometimes, this process becomes quite long for complex applications.

The main features of a native app are:

Since these apps can be built only for a particular OS, a company or organization is required to make duplicate versions of the app, so that it can work on various other platforms. For example, video games for mobile devices are mostly native mobile apps.

Development Cost and Time

Hybrid apps take the least amount of time to develop and are developed at a fairly cheaper price as compared to a native app. 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.

User Experience

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

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