Every mobile app has three different perspectives to create a mobile app: native, web or hybrid. When it comes to mobile app development, everybody gets delusional, due to the variety of app platforms available and it gets hard to understand and choose the one perfect solution for your business requirement. Many naysayers are sitting to divert and misguide you from your goal but to brighten up your way of app development process, we have decided to give you the fair comparison and the solid reasons to get a perfect hybrid mobile app development for your business needs.
Comparison
When you are suggested by any app developer to pick one platform for your business requirement, you don’t need to get sulked after listening to the most technical terms, but what you need to understand the difference, which is mentioned below:
- Web-based apps run on your browser and are easy to build and maintain. They are compatible with all mobile devices and operating systems, be it iOS, Android or Windows, but very sadly, are unable to incur the great user experience, due to its own set of limitations and restrictions.
- Native apps are developed specifically for each different OS. These apps can utilize the inbuilt device features, like GPS, Camera etc. These apps are faster and greatly responsive, but they consume time & money, since the code base required, is different for each OS.
- On the other hand, hybrid apps are a cusp of web-based and native apps, because they inherit the uniform functionalities of web-based apps and the ‘native’ code base of native apps. Hybrid apps have various benefits, such as they are economical and take less time to develop; also, these apps can work on various OS without any hassle.
Benefits of Hybrid Mobile App
Every business owner wants to gain maximum profit from the developed mobile app for their domain, but at the same time, they want their customers to be highly satisfied with the developed product to achieve the customer satisfaction and revenue generation, for their all needs, Hybrid app is the best solution, since it provides a number of benefits with the hybrid app development process, which can’t be ignored. Following are those benefits:
- User Experience (UX)
User experience is the top reason for the success story of any mobile app. At times when we are getting issues in using the app, the first step picked is to quit the mobile app and later uninstall it. So the user experience needs to be smooth enough for the users, so they can enjoy every bit of it and to the fullest. A hybrid app allows your customers to experience the functionalities of their mobile device while using the hybrid mobile app. The hybrid mobile app offers a unique system of UX, which can fix the app on all platforms using a single update and the UX remains untouched, even when the user switches the mobile device to another.
- App Integration
Hybrid mobile apps utilize the programming system of every mobile device to keep it in sync with other mobile apps, via a wrapper or overlay. This superb functionality lets the hybrid mobile apps to use effortlessly the inbuilt features of mobile devices, such as GPS, cameras, messaging and other device information to provide a better service to your customers.
- Offline Support
The internet is everywhere, but there are places in the world, which do not have the liberty of enjoying the fastest internet speed around the clock, so to consider all sorts of users across the globe, the hybrid mobile app offers a better solution for this problem. Hybrid mobile apps use the device’s API to store some data offline, which turns into a big advantage for the users who want to access the internet with poor connectivity.
- Cost Effective
Hybrid apps are more cost effective and have higher quality and diverse sets of libraries coupled with tools to reduce its development time. A hybrid app is needed to be developed once to be submitted to different platforms, which ultimately will save your time and cost as a super-priority.
- Maintenance
Hybrid mobile app is easy to be maintained with a right framework such as: KendoUI, jQuery mobile, Ionic, etc., so a developer needs to be wise enough to choose the right framework for the development of the Hybrid mobile app, failing to which it can lead to disaster, where hybrid mobile app cannot be maintained.
Limitations
Like any other app platform, Hybrid mobile app also has its own set of restrictions and limitations, which have to be considered, before picking this platform for the app development process. Hybrid apps offer a variety of benefits for the users and the developers, but followed are some of the limitations in Hybrid mobile apps, and these limitations are:
- Animation Use
Hybrid apps do support the animations within the app, but till some extent only. There are certain boundaries, where designers have to take a back-seat and curb and mold their creativity into some different direction when it comes to full-fledged integration of animation within the hybrid mobile app.
- Tools and Debugging
The native app development provides the better tooling to test and debug the work, which makes it into a less time-consuming to find and fix the app bugs, on the flip side, hybrid app do not provide reliable hybrid app development tools to debug and fix the issues, which at times consume a little more tie for the developer to identify and fix the bug.
Undeniably, Hybrid mobile applications have their own advantages over the issues, where cost, time and every platform is targeted, as a high priority. Yet there are a few limitations as well, which if planned to be tackled beforehand, cannot be an obstacle in developing a unique hybrid mobile app for your business requirements. At Techugo, we take pride in developing the mobile apps for the leading brands to startups and our mobile app development team has the expertise to create a unique variety of mobile app solution for your business needs, which would help you to showcase your idea, goal, and dream in the most informative and engaging way. Our team of top mobile app designers is here to help assist you with every step of your mobile app development strategy. We consult, brainstorm, manage the project, design, develop, test, launch, and market apps in the best possible way. You can get in touch with our team to discuss further your concept to bring into reality. The discussion would help you to gain a better insight of your app requirement.
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