The massive expansion in the market of the Smartphone in this decade leads to a great impact on the website traffic of the mobile phone as well. With the introduction of cost-efficient Smartphone the dependency on this handy gadget has been increased to a great extent. It becomes daunting for the developers to select amongst Hybrid App development and Native Mobile App Development for developing apps.
Significance of UI/UX in the Mobile App Development
Before we jump off directly into the Hybrid and Native App Development platforms an essential aspect must be discussed. It is your customer and experience that recognized as the most important considerable aspects. Although consumers are not so concerned about the technological platform used for developing an app all they know the ways it can be utilized.
Therefore, for any basic or advanced mobile application development both User Interface and User Experience have a great contribution. Remember, poor experience or improper loading can turn the consumers from using your developed apps.
A brief overview of Hybrid and Native Apps
Hybrid App Development
This app developing platform has been built for using as one in multiple platforms such as Windows, iPhone and Android. Basically, it is a combination of the web apps and native apps. Being a single product it is easily compatible on several Operating Systems (OS) like Windows, Android and iOS.
It possesses the look and feeling much identical to a native application yet run by the website of the company. Being tailored with the help of JavaScript, CSS and HTML5 this web-based program is put on the shell of a native app and its connection has been done with a deice software.
Native App Development
This application is primarily created for using in a specific device or platform such as Windows, BalckBerry, iOS and Android. It is developed specifically for coding in a particular mobile platform in the most native programming language-
- Windows Phone (C#)
- Android (Kotlin, Java)
- iOS (Swift or Objective-C)
While using it software development companies in India must be adhered to its sets of guidelines as it varies greatly in data entry, visual effects, gestures, graphic styles, topography and much more.
Pros of Hybrid App Development
Affordable development cost
In case you are in tight budget, this can be your ideal companion as you have to pay once for developing apps for every platform (Windows, Android and iOS). Even there is no necessity to hire varied programmers to get the job done.
Maintenance
As Hybrid Apps are typical web apps which have been put into the native shell, updation of content is allowed as much times as required. Hence, it possesses minimal maintenance.
Can be marketed in a short time
Most of the developers want to live the app as fast as possible, right? Due to the high competition everyone wants to live their respective apps very early. It helps you to do so along with targeting the relevant audience.
Cons of Hybrid App Development
Performance
This app has an additional layer within the targeted mobile platform and source code commonly known as the hybrid mobile framework. It results in the loss of performing ability even if it can transform from an application to another. HTML is purely over native according to the Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook founder).
Most of the companies make this mistake widely without considering the significant difference when the concern is regarding enterprise applications.
Debugging
Debugging is also a matter of concern due to the addition of the extra layer in its development framework. For this developer can’t feature any new bug in the developed app and rely on its own framework for targeting the specific operating system by performing nicely.
User Experience
In contrary to native app development, perfect user experience cannot be maintained or balanced well within the iOS and Android app. If much emphasis is exerted on the iOS then the Android experience will be worsened and vice-versa.
Pros of Native App Development
Smooth Performance
In this type of mobile app development, coding is to be done by using various programming languages for varied platforms. Hence, multiple versions must be kept for single application to make for every platform. So, it can be specific to any particular operating system and performs efficiently.
Speed
As the application is optimized for OS- Android and iOS, it can attain highest speed along with excellent performing ability. During the development of native apps, consideration is done for everything including consumption of the battery and memory as well. In this app development, even gestures support can be implemented easily for integrating new functions whenever needed.
User Experience
Good impression is a significant aspect for every app so that it is not deleted instantly after its installation. With the Native App Development, both experience and feeling will be much better with improved animations, profound effects, special gesture recognition and scrolling. Even it is often coupled with appealing elements at the same time.
Data Protection and Security
Native App Development offers highly-effective hardware resources for protection of your data with enhanced security.
Flexibility
Only Native Apps can provide rapid accessibility to the inbuilt utilities of the devices such as microphone, calendar, GPS, camera and other functional properties. On the other hand, Hybrid App Development possesses certain limitations during the interface construction. It is so; because one app is used on various platforms. But in this respective platform, implementation of everything that technology offers can be performed without any restriction.
Personalization
While numerous types of Android devices are available in marketplace that comes with varied screen sizes, native app development is the most reliable one for them. It can adjust the layout perfectly for every screen size.
Cons of Native App Development
Development time
Development of this app requires much more time if compared with Hybrid App Development. Implementation and creation of the design for varied dimensional devices with various Operating Systems iPhone, Android and Windows consume a lot of time for full completion of the app.
Development cost
Typically, developers are specialized in a single platform- Windows, Android or iOS. Therefore a specialized development team is needed to build a native app for making it compatible to varied platforms. Hence, building of this app is expensive too. In case of any future updates or changes, it will imply more expense due to the hiring of number of developers to make the changes.
Why select Native App Development?
Various directions can be taken while designing an app. But to take the most appropriate decision, the differences within the pros and cons of the option must be understood in an explicit manner.
Even you should know about the weaknesses and strengths of the options for making final choice according to the requirement of the business. Even you should know about the weaknesses and strengths of the options for making final choice according to the requirement of the business. Our specialised developers develop user-friendly mobile apps with highest-standard of performing ability as per your business requirements.