Mobile Application Development: Types and Differences

 Mobile Application Development

Types and Differences

This is a world of technology and who has gadgets like androids and iOS hence its is necessary for the user to know about every critical detail and once you go deep dive into the process you will come across various terminologies like web , hybrid , pwa etc. In this blog you will get a brief of these terminologies thus it will make product and services accessible to users.

 In mobile phones ,there are different operating systems .The facts are Android and iOS  are the most favored .Some of the other operating systems are Blackberry OS ,Windows Mobile, Microsoft Windows ,Linux Kernel etc.

Each Operating system needs the application program should be in specific format so that it can be run on the device . To ensure that operating system run on the device ,the application programme of each operating system should be specific and responsive. As we write the code in Java for Android and C or Swift for iOS. This is called Native App Development which means writing apps in the native language of the Operating System. For Example when the app is provided for both android and iOS it means the developers had  packaged it separately for each platform.

We have two different kinds of App Development:

1.Native -Hybrid App Development:

To run on every OS ,apps are written in a common language  which gets converted into a native form. Due to which the performance of the app is better and it runs conveniently smoother .Some examples are Instagram  ,Discord ,NerdWallet etc.

2.Web-Hybrid App Development:

To enable the app to be compatible with any  mobile OS ,writing it in Java script , HTML, CSS. Due to which it will give it more access to device hardware .Some examples are Facebook etc.

  Lets go through the basic difference between them to understand the system easily on the parameters of Performance, Debugging , Hardware access, Development cost.

On the basis of PERFORMANCE , Native hybrid is better than the web hybrid due to the native execution of the code .  All APIs(Application programming interface) are available in native hybrid  whereas  web hybrid is slower and less efficient in HARDWARE FEATURE ACCESSING. Native hybrid can be easily DEBUGGED as solid tools are available and it is difficult in web hybrid .DEVELOPMENT COST  of native hybrid is slightly more expansive and in web hybrid the cost is less as mostly reusable codes are used.