With trend of smart phones, new trend of businesses targeting smart phone users is getting hot day by day, from a well settled business man to a rickshaw driver or from a medium class person to most of the students; every one of them got their hands on smart phones. With so much revolution in field of mobile phones, apps are now not only used to play games or to solve puzzles but apps are now being used at corporate level to target more and more user having smart phones. So with apps in so much trend, there are many developers, companies are developing apps for corporate, organizations or restaurants. So basically if you own a business, owning a mobile app will be good for your business.
So in this blog I will be telling you about basics types of app, as it’s not a detailed informative blog about how to make apps. There are three kind of apps that are been developed to be used on smart phones, either it is an android or IOS Mobile.
Native apps– Those apps are developed to run on a specific platform are called native apps. As they are specifically written for OS, so they can directly interact with OS and can use mobile resource like phone microphone, contacts, calling and others. As they are directly interacting with mobile resources so they are fast in performance, that’s why most of the gaming apps are native apps. Below is the diagram that how a native app interact with mobile.
Web apps- Now a days web experience for mobile users have been improved so much that the navigation on web are pretty much alike as they are on native apps. Mobile web apps are based on web technologies, they are created using html, CSS, JS etc. As they are based and created with specification to browser they can be used on android or IOS device. So cost of creating app for two different platform is reduced But the interaction of a web app with mobile is little slow than native apps as they do not interact with mobile services and resource directly so some of mobile features cannot be used in these apps. To make it is easy to understand see below how they interact with mobile.
Hybrid apps- So we are done with native apps and web based apps and they both lack something. In case of native apps speed, performance, resource use is great but cost of creating native app will be big as you definitely going to make app for different platform and app for different platform will cost you more. In compare to performance and speed and use of resources web based apps might be slower but development cost of these apps is lesser than native apps as they don’t need to be created for different platform individually. But we found a way to get benefits of web based apps whereas we can create different native part according to different platform and the web based part of the app will be the same for all platform/OS. This will cost you so much less and performance issues will also be resolved. To make it more clear that how a hybrid app interact with mobile I have image down to demonstrate.
