There are so many different
platforms & operating systems
to design the mobile app.

Depending on the nature of their use, developers tents to develop three types of Mobile Apps or applications by technology, native, web, and hybrid. Native Apps are specifically designed for a specific operating system, such as iOS, Android, and Windows. Web apps are responsive websites optimized for handheld devices like a Smartphone or tablets. Hybrid apps are a mixture of two, and the good news is that they are OS-independent. Each has its own set of pros and cons that can make or break the user experience.

By their name, they are found on your Smartphone pre-installed or can be installed and downloaded from Google play store or Apple store according to your specific operating system. Native apps are machine-dependent and function competently with a specified device because they are created especially for a respective OS. So the app you developed for iOS won’t work on Windows or Android. Native apps can access other features of a Smartphone, such as a phone, camera, gallery even contacts list. For example, the browser, mic, and camera are native apps ingrained with iPhone, and the game you have downloaded from the Apple store, won’t be installed on Android. Whatsapp, FB Messanger, YouTube, Spotify, and Amazon are the best example of Native Apps.
Native apps are coded using a variety of programming languages. Some examples include: Java, Kotlin, Python, Swift, Objective-C, C++, and React.

Because of their innate compatibility, native apps work more faster on their supportive operating system. Unlike Hybrid or web app, native app keep its data within the device that can be access within no time. To run a native app you don’t need connects to the internet. Native Apps are great way to optimized customer experience because they utilize the device’s native Ui that’s mean your audience can access all the device’s features, like camera, Bluetooth, Gallery, Contacts list, etc. Users might find you via app stores like iTunes or Google Play.

Web Apps are also known as Responsive websites that work the same way as a website; but they are optimized for Smartphones and Tablets. A Web app doesn’t need its framework because it is designed to utilize the native browser of a mobile device instead. No high programming skill is required, web apps are developed using Javascript, Html, and CSS. Unlike native apps, web apps are an easy and highly cost-effective way of an online presence.

The significant advantage of a web app, it takes less time to develop and is much cheaper than native apps. You don’t have to install them, that saves your phone memory.

Hybrid Apps are a combination of both native and web app; because it designed by using the same languages but behaves like native apps. We also can say that a hybrid app is a web app wrapped by a device's native browser. A web-to-native abstraction layer makes devise functionality accessible, unlike web apps, such as the gallery, camera, and contact list. Tweeter, Gmail, Facebook, Apple app store and Amazon app store are the great examples of Hybrid Apps.

Hybrid apps take less time and effort to be developed and can be used multiplatform. Though they are much cheaper than native apps but work in the same way as native apps do. Developers tend to use coding that hides the browser's visibility making them look like native apps. Your audiences can find you on app stores like Google Play or iTunes. Updates fetched from the server side to users don't need to reinstall a new version like a native app.