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Native Vs Hybrid - Mobile App Development

Native Code

• Proficiency in each platform required
• Entirely separate code bases
• Time consuming & expensive development
• More Platforms. More Problems.
• Platform specific
• Respective development tools
• Expensive development

Hybrid Apps

• HTML5 that acts like native
• Direct access to native APIs
• Familiar web dev environment
• Develop a single code base
• reuse code between platforms
• Platform independent (iOS, Android etc.)
• HTML5, CSS3 & JS
• Quick development
• Direct access to native APIs with Cordova

Reason for native sdk

• Common UI Views for better user experience
• Navigation and history stack
• Transitions
• It offers full access to the mobile platform

and not web sdk

• Doesn’t offer full access to the mobile platform
• Doesn’t provide rich, native-style UI components and interactions
• You’ll probably spend way too much time bringing native look and feel