Advantages & Disadvantages of Hybrid App


One of the first choices you must make when creating a mobile application is whether it will be a hybrid, web, or native app. Which app type is best for you? Each app type has advantages and disadvantages. Budget, timeframe, user interface (UI) and user experience (UX), future maintenance, and development skills are a few factors that will influence your decision.

In this post, we will discuss the most popular hybrid application in detail:

What is a Hybrid App?

A hybrid app is simply a web app that has a lightweight native app "container" that enables it to use native platform capabilities and device hardware that a web application cannot (such as a device's camera, calendar, push notifications, and pinch and spread functionality). 


In order to give hybrid apps cross-platform capabilities, they are created using widely used front-end development technologies and languages including JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS.


Like native applications, hybrid apps are downloaded from app stores, have access to your phone's hardware, and are installed on your device. However, how do they compare to native and web apps, and what are the advantages?


What is a Hybrid App


Advantages of Hybrid Application Development

The following are the key benefits of hybrid applications:

Cross-platform Compatibility

With hybrid app frameworks, programmers may use a single codebase for both iOS and Android devices.

Shorter Development Time

The time required to develop native apps for several operating systems is reduced by more code reuse.

 

Advantages of Hybrid Application Development

Scalability

The development of scalability into apps is made simpler for developers by cloud-native web technologies and a single codebase.

Cost-effective

Reduce development expenses by creating different OS system-specific versions of the same software.

Disadvantages of Hybrid Apps

The following are the key drawbacks of hybrid applications:

Performance

Although there are now workarounds for hybrid apps (such as compiling machine code using React Native), there is technically a layer between the operating system and the source code that could slow down performance for applications that use a lot of resources.


Disadvantages of Hybrid Apps


Test complexity

Although hybrid apps frequently share code across platforms to benefit from the underlying hardware, part of that code is frequently native in practice. This could make your test suite more difficult depending on your project.


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