It is predicted that by 2023 app downloads worldwide will reach about 299 billion. Even as these numbers look positive, offering plenty of opportunities in a growing and highly competitive market, customers today are not just looking for an app – they are looking for personalized, fast, and secure apps. Typically, any business aims to create these using either a native or hybrid development module to incorporate adequate user experience, speed to market, expertise, and more. But surprisingly, even after over a decade, the intriguing debate between hybrid and native continues. For instance, Facebook and WhatsApp are built native, while Instagram and Evernote are built hybrid. Confused? Well, most of us are when we try to choose between the best approach. Just like any other technology, each of these approaches comes with its own set of benefits. However, your selection depends upon constraints such as complexity in features, time, budget, security requirements, and others.
Blue Code is a leading web and mobile apps development company in India specializing in hybrid and native approaches.
Development overview
A native app mainly helps develop mobile operating systems using programming languages such as Swift or Objective C for iOS and Kotlin for Android. App developers get Apple and Google interface elements, development tools, and SDKs to work. With native apps, the styling and user interface components are all stored on the device, enabling offline working.
On the other hand, hybrid applications are packaged to look like native apps but outside the framework of an application where a website fuels navigational and control elements. Built-in HTML 5 and Javascript, the hybrid web app is contained in native, where information is loaded as the user navigates across the application.
Customer Experience
Customer experience can indeed either make or break an app (or any product or service, for that matter). Some of the most critical decisions a company takes are about the approach it wants to adopt when building a mobile or web app. If you are interested in creating an MVP or Minimally Viable Product and quickly making an app that can be released across various platforms, then hybrid is the way to go. Alternatively, if you need an application that completely integrates into an Android or iOS platform, as the user prefers, you must choose the native approach. Blue Code suggests a balanced approach to the solution after assessing the opportunities, threats, and weaknesses involved.
The better of the two
Here is a broad overview of the differences between Hybrid and Native Apps.
Hybrid apps are single code-based, low cost, and simple to build and test. Besides, they are easy to maintain and are best where quicker deliveries are concerned. However, it comes with bounded efficiency and depends heavily on internet connectivity for execution.
Native apps provide outstanding performance, are data protected, and provide functionality like no other. It is also most sought-after where customer experience and comprehension are concerned. But the native can be highly time and money-consuming besides having a widely distributed codebase.
Conclusion
Whether you are using the hybrid or native, the core difference lies in implementing the approach. It could be challenging to decide the most suitable technology without assessing a project’s strengths, challenges, and pitfalls. Blue Code Applications is a leading web and mobile app development company in India that sets the exact goals and then decides because this is also what influences the final results. We are highly oriented towards user experience and prefer to choose a cross-platform framework for versatility.
