Hybrid App Development Company

As we know, it is the time of the use of mobile applications. Several types of mobile application base on different technologies are available in the market. We are seeing today that most of the Hybrid App Development Company are developing hybrid apps for each device like iPhone, Android, Windows Mobile, etc. requires different frameworks and languages. Here we will focus our discussion on the development of hybrid application using web technologies based on native standards which solve the variant issue comes in the path of development. The persons who have little knowledge of Information Technology know the "hybrids" applications consist of a special category of web applications that extend the web-based application environment by using native platform APIs available on a particular device. The design pattern of hybrid apps applies to both mobile and desktop environments. Like native applications, a hybrid application is performed within a native process environment in the device. These hybrid applications typically involve content HTML within a screen mode browser with full control, with no visible address bar or other controls built-in browsers. Hybrid applications use one-layer web-to-native abstraction (also known as bridge layer) which allows JavaScript to access every feature of device-specific and native APIs which cannot normally access from the mobile web browser alone.

We can divide Mobile Apps mainly in the following three types –

1 - Web Apps, 2 - Native Apps and 3 – Hybrid Apps

Advantages and disadvantages of each type of these mobile application developments can be described as below:

                                        Advantages:

Web Apps – The main advantages of this app are it executed by the browser. It can be used on any platforms. It has a fast and comprehensive distribution. It can be downloaded and updated. It has quick and easy access. It has instant access to any user’s smartphone.

Native Apps – It provides good interaction between user and application. It has rich functionalities. It has fast execution and independent of internet connection.

Hybrid Apps – The main advantage of this app is, it used cross-platform code. It has made the possibility of using resources of the platform with native code. It can be distributed to online stores.

                                           Disadvantages:

Web Apps – It has no integration with the device hardware in running mode of the app. It is totally depending on the internet connection. It has no rich functionalities.

Native Apps ­­– It is a new application type which has been written for each different platform, that is - it is a platform-dependent app. Its distribution and updating depend on a particular online store, for example – (a) Apple Store and (b) Google Play.

Hybrid Apps – These apps have good performance but have a design limitation.

All the above mention these applications generally run on a system simulator. the iOS operating system which is known as iOS Simulator. In cases of native application and hybrid application first of all compilation of the iOS app took place with the help of Xcode, while the Web app just became available on a web page.

For Web and Hybrid coding the only code change beyond the Cordova structural were the external calls of the HTML.

For always being available in the app even when without an Internet connection, the hybrid application requires that libraries are stored locally on the device so the need to change only external calls. In comparative, the native application has another paradigm and structure. The visual line of the application is not developed in HTML markup language and yes visually in Interface Storyboard Builder in Xcode.

Here I want to elaborate on the technologies used in all the three types of mobile application, which is very important and interesting to understand the differences between these three types of mobile apps. It is also very necessary to remember, that in the development of every type of mobile applications there is a requirement of – (a) - Language, (b) - libraries, (c) - Framework, (d) - SDK and (e) - IDE.

Technologies used in the development of a different type of Apps can be described as follows:

1 – Web Application -       HTML5, jQUERY, CSS3, JAVASCRIPT, JSON, NOTEPAD ++.

2 – Native Application -     OBJECTIVE Ç, JSON, Xcode, IOS SIMULATOR.

3 – Hybrid Application -     OBJECTIVE Ç,Xcode, IOS SIMULATOR,  CORDOVA, HTML5,

                                           jQUERY, CSS3,  JAVASCRIPT, JSON.