NATIVE VS. HYBRID APPS. WHAT SHOULD YOU CHOOSE IN 2018?

NATIVE VS. HYBRID APPS. WHAT SHOULD YOU CHOOSE IN 2018?

In today's development environment, there is often a question - whether to create a mobile website or a native app or a hybrid app. Before developing the software, as a developer you should spend the time to think about some aspects thoroughly. Applaunch.io compared native and hybrid development techniques to help you make the right decision.

Native apps Native apps are based on a programming language that is specific to the platform for which they were developed. These are usually Objective-C or Swift for iOS and Java for Android.

Native apps generally perform better with rendering and animation than hybrid apps.

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Hybrid Apps Hybrid app is a mobile app that contains a web view (essentially an isolated browser instance) to run a web application within the native app, using the native wrapper that can communicate with a native device platform and the web view. This means that web apps can work in the mobile device while having access to the device, such as the camera or GPS features.

Hybrid apps exist thanks to the utilities designed specifically to facilitate communication between the web view and the native platform. These utilities

are not part of the official iOS or Android platforms, but they are third-party, such as Apache Cordova.

When a hybrid app is created, it will be compiled and your web application will be transformed into a native app.

Here's the comparison of native and hybrid

Native, Xamarin, PhoneGap etc. We decided to compare native apps with Top 2 hybrid frameworks - Ionic and React Native.

Ionic Ionic is a framework that allows developers to develop hybrid mobile apps using such web technologies as HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

Hybrid mobile app is built using the technologies commonly used for web.

Hybrid apps reside within native applications, giving them access to the camera, pedometer, and other functionalities of the device, eliminating the need to develop special devices or operating systems. Overall, this means that you are developing a website that is wrapped within the app.

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React Native React Native is a framework developed by Facebook for the development of native style apps for iOS & Android using a common JavaScript language.

Unlike hybrid apps, native apps are designed specifically for the platform they will be used on (iOS, Android etc).

React Native allows the code to be partitioned between platforms, empowering developers to create special apps that are less clunky and work better than hybrid apps.

With both React Native and Native Apps, the gestures, such as clamping or double pressing in your operating system, work as well as you have shown.

We have made a table comparing the technologies.

Ionic

React Native

Easy to learn already has many prepared and engineered components.

Learning curve with a few prepared native components

First-class documentation that is clear and consistent

Basic documentation compared to Ionic

You can use the same codebase for developing apps for Android, iOS, Windows Phone, Web, Desktop, and PWA (Progressive Web App)

You can use the same codebase (mostly) for developing apps for Android, IOS, Windows Phone

Is coded with the help of typescript (type-script is a typed superset of Javascript, which is compiled in pure JavaScript)

Is coded using JSX (JSX is a preprocessing step that adds XML syntax to the Javascript)

You write it once and then use it everywhere

You learn it once and then write everywhere

Medium performance because this technology uses WebView

Very good performance

One uses Apache Cordova in Ionic 2 to have access to the functionality of the mobile phone hardware

React native app is compiled into a native code and has direct access to the native mobile phone features

Development cycles are very fast. One

can do test execution in the browser without using heavy loading of the emulator

One can do test execution in the emulator or in the real device

It asks more questions about Ionic on StackOverflow and there is a very goodcommunity - Support

React Native has more stars on GitHub with an equally powerful community - Support

Is based on Angular 2 and supported by Google

Is based on React and supported by Facebook

Conclusion There are clear and clear advantages and disadvantages for both hybrid and native approaches, and therefore this discussion is still up-to-date.

Speed of entry into the market, a source code, cross-compatible web technologies, easy updates, availability of resources and lower costs make hybrid applications very attractive.

But finally, the biggest distraction of hybrid apps is that the company is likely to spend more time fixing and optimizing the app. This happens because of the large number of user complaints about UI elements or performance issues.

In addition, native apps have the added benefit of features specific to the operating system on which the app is built (eg, camera, GPS, address book, etc.). In addition, a native approach provides the best security for a mobile application, best performance, a highly sensitive user interface, and access to all native APIs.

In other words, the initial investment may be higher, but a company will ultimately save time and money because it provides a great user experience and standard performance for App. Each approach has its pros and cons, but in the end, a native approach will have the biggest benefits to the company's net profit.