Who Is The Best Hybrid or Native Mobile Apps?

Before understanding Hybrid or native mobile apps, Let’s walk through its importance. When we need to develop Hybrid or when native mobile apps?

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Mobile applications market growth from 2016 to 2023

The global mobile application market size was valued at $108,440 million in 2016 and is expected to grow at a CAGR of 19.2% to reach $311,249 million by 2023.

The mobile apps gain importance at a global level due to their ease of use and user-friendly interface.

As these apps provide the specific information required by the user, these apps become the basic need of anyone using personal portable devices such as smartphones, tablets, or laptops.

Source of data and image: https://www.alliedmarketresearch.com/mobile-application-market

Therefore, due to this big boom in the digital industry, we have to think about the good technology of mobile application development, whether we create it for customers or for ourselves.

When we talk about mobile app development, two terms come to our mind. First one is native and second is hybrid mobile applications.

Difference between hybrid and native mobile apps

Smooth performance and user experiences

Native apps built for a specific platform by using a particular programming language.

So, it provides more smooth application performance whereas in hybrid apps cannot provide that much of performance.

Because hybrid apps use web technologies such as HTML, CSS and JavaScript to build the mobile application and it is not specific for a particular platform.

Speed and flexibilities

Native apps can better use of device hardware like mic, gestures, memory and even battery utilization. Whereas hybrid app depends on native libraries.

It is tough to adapt the future updates of mobiles for hybrid apps because hybrid apps need for developing libraries for that feature. And native apps can directly use that feature.

In short, Native apps more flexible and speedier as compared to hybrid apps.

Development Time and cost

Hybrid apps getting wins in development time and cost because it uses the one code base for all platforms so it takes less development time and cost.

Whereas native apps need to develop different languages for different platforms.

It will increase the cost of development and time to take developed. Native apps also need multiple developers like java or Kotlin developers for Android and C# or swift developers for iOS.

Web view

Hybrid apps use a web view to interact with the native SDK. The WebView can only good as the WebView. It is only responsible for displaying UI components and JavaScript.

WebView has very improved over time but it hasn’t reached native performance yet.

Debugging app

It’s hard to debug a hybrid app as compare to the native app because hybrid apps use external native plugins and libraries. Sometimes these libraries deprecate and need to find an alternate.

Native apps easy to debug because they can easily update with the native languages.

Final thought

If you have less time and you want MVB (minimal viable product) but with adding values of your product, you can go with hybrid apps.

If the app is free of cost available to the users then it can be built with the hybrid approach but if it is paid or needs high graphics with high performance then it will be fine to go with native languages and with some extra cost.

Finally, this is only a point of view, you can select as per your preference.