Why is mobile app development so popular?
Developing mobile applications is a steadily growing business niche. Virtually all people on the planet have mobile phones, which means a nearly unlimited number of potential users. Consequently, there are apps for almost everything nowadays.
You can choose many ways to design and build an app. You can either use native methods, e.g. Flutter (Dart) and Objective-C for creating iOS apps and Java for Android apps. These are the official Apple / Google software programming languages, respectively, which provide support and frequently updated features.
Cross-Platform
Cross-platform apps are apps that can be developed using a single codebase and function virtually identically on both iOS and Android operating systems.
Hybrid Development and Native Development?🤔
Native apps are developed with the native SDKs of their target platforms (e.g. Android or iOS). This means that they do not share any code across platforms and this shared code is written only for the targeted platform, whereas the UI is implemented using platform-specific widgets and libraries.
Native apps provide a better user experience than Hybrid apps and also look more native on each platform, but they cost more to develop and take longer to release new features due to the time needed for developers to learn the APIs of the target platforms.
In general, it is ideal to develop your app using the native development tool of their target platforms (e.g. Android Studio or Xcode).
Hhybrid apps are developed with a combination of web technologies such as HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript. This means that hybrid apps share some code across platforms (e.g. the HTML/CSS/JS code) and this shared code runs in a review on the target platform.
WebView apps are hybrid apps that use embedded web views to render their user interface, within which you can use HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript for customization.
WebView apps will have some limitations in accessing the device API out of the box, requiring additional effort to achieve some of the same functionality as native apps. The trade-off is that these apps are cross-platform out of the box, which can be a significant time saver.
Hybrid apps may look the same on both platforms but behave differently, depending on platform-specific APIs available to them. For E.g. a weather app would check the API of the current location’s weather service on both platforms and return different data according to what is available on each platform.
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