Native App VS Hybrid App Development

Now a days people love to use their smartphones because they can variety of things like reading emails, chatting , social networking , watching movies and many other activities at once in their smartphones.We enjoy to have smartphones as their are plenty of applications that makes our life easier.
If you are mobile application developer  and planning to develop an app for mobile application market , the decision struck between developing a native app or hybrid app.
In this case the general question arises " Which Is Best "?

Native Over Hybrid
Objective-C on iOS , and Java on Android are languages used for building native applications.Native app usually given best performance in phones because they are compiled into machine codes.Thus the main advantage of native app is their performance, like fast and fluid animations, multi touch support , access to full hardware and such more.

Native applications are very difficult to develop , usually if you are beginner in mobile application development.Native app development code may not be under stable to everyone.
The languages and platforms for developing different apps obviously differs as code must be written specifically for each platform, although the logic may be the same, but the languages , API's and development process differs. The process may get difficult and longest for complex projects.

Going Native

If you are beginner in mobile app development , then seriously you need some very good resources to learn native app development.

For instance , you are planning to develop an native iOS app , firstly you need to het yourself  Mac.You can write code anywhere but mac is needed to build a code into an application as in an iOS developer account.

Apple provides its own tutorial which is helpful for beginners and experienced developers. This tutorial introduces application design, structure and code implementation while building a ToDoList app (ToDo lists seem to be the ‘Hello, World!’ applications for mobile development).

Hybrid Over Native

Hybrid app are developed using HTML , CSS , and Javascript and then get wrapped using native application using platforms like cordova , allowing you to use web native platforms as needed by you . Hybrid apps  are web applications in native browser such as UIWebView in iOS and WebView in Android (not Safari or Chrome).

Application development in hybrid is much simpler and rapid process thus making the application easier to maintain. Cordova lets you to build app for multiple platforms just by adding one line of code. For phone hardwares like bluetooth and all , cordova has large number of plugins available that can be download and used easily.

The worst in hybrid app development is they still depend on native browsers, thus making it slow app as comparison with native kind of app.

Going Hybrid

So if you want to finally move on with Hybrid kind of app , then you must know there are two competitors in this field .First one is Cordova (and cordova like tools like Phone-gap )and the second one is Appcelerator Titanium. Although they both target mobile platforms , but their working criteria differs.

Cordova is just as simple as developing a web page.You create HTML, CSS and JavaScript local files, test them in the browser(local host) and then convert them in a native web view with Cordova (you’ll still need native SDKs and development tools for this step).

You don't required HTML or CSS files while developing an app with titanium , until and unless you want to create an application that uses both native and HTML-based user interface. Titanium helps your application on real platform to simulate , and not in the browser only.When you run an app on the device , it doesn't get responsive into web view, instead it get coded via javascript language.

Conclusion

Both Native and Hybrid application have their own merits and demerits .Now its upto you on which platform catch your eyes more.Each of them has their own advantages and disadvantages thus which fills you better should be chosen by you.

Also if you want expert advice then you may contact us for expert advice depending on the type of mobile app you are willing to developer.