Pros and Cons of Native and Hybrid Mobile App Development

 

In previous article about options of Mobile App Development we have narrated the basic understanding and differences of Native and Hybrid mobile app development as options.

Hybrid Mobile Apps vs. Native Mobile Apps

If you are thinking of developing for the mobile application market, an important decision is to decide between developing a native application or a hybrid one. Choosing to use native or hybrid mobile application is always the pain for everyone who wants to make their mobile apps.

From our experience working with mobile app development we have made following comparison.

Native apps are specific to a given mobile platform (iOS or Android) using the development tools and language that the respective platform supports (e.g., Xcode and Objective-C with iOS, Eclipse and Java with Android). Native apps look and perform the best.

HTML5 apps use standard web technologies—typically HTML5, JavaScript and CSS. This write-once-run-anywhere approach to mobile development creates cross-platform mobile applications that work on multiple devices. While developers can create sophisticated apps with HTML5 and JavaScript alone, some vital limitations remain at the time of this writing, specifically session management, secure offline storage, and access to native device functionality (camera, calendar, geolocation, etc.)