Native, mobile Web, or hybrid? For companies considering tapping into the mobility of their increasingly connected workforce with enterprise mobile solutions, that’s the million dollar question.
Before you can determine which option is best for your custom mobile development project, we think it’s important to understand a few basic fundamentals on the differences between native, hybrid and mobile Web applications.
Native
Apps developed exclusively for specific mobile platform that can leverage all device capabilities.
The inherent benefits are obvious. Native applications can leverage the full array of features and functions available through the mobile device’s core operating system. Generally, they are faster, smoother and offer a significantly more fluid user experience than either Hybrid apps or mobile Web apps.
The main disadvantage of native app is you can’t run this app in other platforms. So you need more developers to build app in different plat forms. Learning time is more when compared to web and hybrid apps. Building native apps are little expensive.
Mobile Web
Apps implemented with HTML5 and JavaScript that operate entirely inside a mobile browser. Mobile Web apps offer an attractive option for companies that are looking to get into the Mobility game but don’t want to invest in building native applications across four different mobile platforms. Whether getting a new app up and running or maintaining or updating an existing mobile solution, with Mobile Web Apps everything is simple and inexpensive.
Hybrid
Apps that wrap a mobile web interface inside a native container
Today, technology changes so rapidly that most businesses require immense flexibility and scalability to adapt content, design and even application architecture, all on the fly. By deploying applications that rely on a robust combination of HTML5 Web technologies and native OS features, you preserve a large degree of control over the content and design of the solutions we build for mobile platforms.
The main advantage of Hybrid app is cross platform. It saves the development cost and time. But the problem is less user control when compared to native apps. The performance is less when compared to native apps and touch sensing also varies.
