In today’s time, an idea is a currency and an application (as we call Apps) is its technological platform. Hybrid mobile apps take this idea to the people around the world, and hence these are the power tools. With one click on the apps in your mobile or your tab, you can go to the different world.

Have you ever wondered, how these hybrid mobile apps have been developed; how is it possible for you to chat with someone on the other side of the world; how is it possible for someone sitting in Antarctica to see your pictures and comment on it; or how a food is being ordered with just a click!

Well, let’s understand the backbone or the backhand of these hybrid mobile apps.

A mobile app can be described as computer software which is designed in such a way that it runs a mobile (a phone or a tablet) and even a watch. These hybrid mobile apps enable you to play a game on your phone or can even tell you your heart rate in your watch. We download these apps from a platform which can be termed as ‘application distribution platforms’ which is being handled by operating systems such as App Store (IoS) or Google Play Store. So, if you carry an iPhone, you will find the App Store and if you carry an android phone, you will have Google Play Store.

We all know that there are thousands of memes and jokes made out of this different operating system, but let’s not get there right now. And, by the way, in the year 2010, the word ‘App’ was so famous that it had to be named ‘word of the year’ by the American Dialect Society. Hence, we definitely need to understand the gravity that this word holds.

These hybrid mobile apps are of three main kinds, i.e. Native Apps, Web-based Apps, and Hybrid Apps.

When an app is targeted to run on an iPhone, it will never run on the Android device. Right? This is because such apps are made in a way that it runs on a single platform and hence they are known as a native app. Now, if the device has a very strong internet connection, you can go for Web-based Apps. Such apps take the minimum space in your device and imagine what blessing that is! Moving on to the third type of App, i.e Hybrid mobile apps. This app is conceptualised by inculcating the concept of native apps as well as web-based apps. This is a real boon to the app developer. Why is that? The hybrid mobile apps developer will just work on a single code and with it, these apps are ready to run on multiple platforms. Isn’t that amazing!

So, is it all the same!

Well, if we go into details, the look and the feel can differ. And, this for all the sophisticated applications is crucial. It’s rightly said and believed by many that ‘GOD is in Details’. So, here is the hitch.

Developed using HTML, CSS, or JAVA, such hybrid mobile apps are then wrapped in a native application which is known as Cordova. Cordova lets you change the platform anytime you want by modifying a single code line. Well, Cordova does have a competitor and that is Appcelerator Titanium. Along with it, there are many other native applications which can be used as frameworks. In such a way, developing hybrid mobile apps becomes a lot easy. So, the life of a developer becomes easy.

Hybrid mobile apps are the latest edition to the app universe of Google, but does that make it perfect for building an app! Well, to each to its own. Well, something that is perfect for someone may not be perfect for another. Hence, it all depends on the needs of a web developer and what type of app he/she wants to create. Hybrid mobile apps have an edge over another but what if the requirement is different! So, being the latest edition I would not support the saying ‘GO HYBRID’; but think before, and if you need it then definitely go for it.

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