How the Mobile App World is Changing: The Hybrid Wave

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How the Mobile App World is Changing The Hybrid
Wave
It's been a decade now since smartphones have
become an inseparable part of our lives. And the
most important role in this marriage has been
played by mobile apps. And what they allow a
regular person to do the power it put in the
hands of the users. Currently, there are over
4.5 billion people online and out of the 3.5
billion people use smartphones having apps every
day. Around 7.5 billion people are estimated to
be active on the internet by 2030 out of 8.5
billion of the estimated people alive at that
time. Thats 90 of the total world population.
Just imagine the market size of mobile apps
these stats alone prove there will be in the near
future.
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A few years back, we were all anticipating 2020
to happen and within the blink of an eye, 2030
will be here. Hopefully, COVID-free. What we are
getting to here is that the future of mobile apps
is happening right now. And the future is
drastically competitive considering the
opportunities that are available out
there. Every business wants, needs, and
definitely should have a mobile app depending on
the frequency they want their customers to
interact with them. Having apps for B2C
businesses might be considered imperative whilst
apps for B2B targeting businesses might seem a
little far-fetched for now. Personalized
interactions are becoming increasingly popular
among customers as well as businesses and apps
bring a lot of leverage for businesses in this
area. Meanwhile, in the ecommerce landscape, the
shift is happening and moving towards m-commerce
i.e. having a mobile estore from where your
customers can shop on the go. No matter how niche
businesses are. The idea to have a mobile app
for your business is not new. Its as old as the
invention of mobile apps. But the main question
that looms over the heads of business owners is
which way to go? What technology to use for their
apps since most of them do not come from a
technical background?
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If you are among the ones seeking answers to
these questions mentioned above, then this blog
will simplify some of the aspects of mobile app
development for you. There are essentially three
methods to develop a mobile application ?
Native mobile application ? Web application ?
Hybrid application development Native mobile
application as the name suggests is native to
the devices they are made for i.e. iOS or
Android. Native apps are built using either
Swift or Objective-C for iOS and either Java or
Kotlin for Android devices. Since the apps built
are native using native languages, tools, UI
components, and directories, they tend to be
more robust, perform better, and deliver a
better user experience. The major disadvantage of
having a native app is that it wont be useful
for the other platforms including and not limited
to web, iOS. Moreover, you cant reuse the code
used to build your iOS app for anything.
Additionally, there are limitations from Apple
App Store as well that can delay your release if
theres a direct change in the native code.
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The review process takes roughly around 1-7 days
-- which can stretch based on the time of the
year you are submitting your app or
update. Regarding the resources required to
develop native apps -- it is harder to find
resources that know languages for both apps with
equal proficiency. So, here the cost goes high
for the development itself, and when you have to
update the app, you need to again go through the
same process as well as shell out a better chunk
of money. Web application is an application
program developed using languages like HTML,
CSS, and JavaScript and delivered over the
internet through browsers. Some of the websites
can be categorized as web apps. The main
advantage of building a web app is that you
dont have to go through the tedious approval
process that app-stores have and you can directly
deliver the application to your users for mobile
as well as browser. Since it is built using
HTML, CSS, or Java, the developers have huge
libraries like Vue, Angular, React, etc. to use
giving them more freedom with the
functionalities. Here, the advantages and
disadvantages stem from the source -- since it
is developed using not native languages, they
deliver a less smooth experience and have
limitations in accessing the abilities of the
platforms. Additionally, they are also
restricted to the capabilities of the users
browsers.
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Finding resources to create web applications for
your business is easier as the languages used to
create them are more universal. The cost to
create them usually runs lower than native apps
and they can be accessed on multiple platforms
and can be updated in the one go for all the
platforms. Hybrid application is essentially
native mobile application development web
application development. The core application is
written as a web application which is then
wrapped around a native shell using applications
like Ionics capacitor or Apache Cordova. What
these applications essentially do is create a
shell for your web application which has the
webView component where your app loads for the
users without giving them the hint of the
same. The limitations of web applications can be
overcome using the plugins available for Cordova
or Capacitor that enables you to use the
capabilities of their native OS. Additionally,
you can also publish your hybrid applications on
both the app stores since the apps are loaded in
a native way. Since it is fundamentally a web
application, you might run into a limitation
regarding UI elements as you might need to
recreate them but this limitation can be easily
overcome by using libraries like React Native,
Ionic, Xamarin, etc.
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To summarize the advantages of the hybrid
application ? Low costs and easy to develop ?
Speed performance ?Great UI/UX ? Offline
support ? Easy integration with other apps ?
Multi-platform support In short, these apps
provide the best of both worlds. Some of the
most popular apps like Gmail, Twitter, Instagram,
Evernote, and more are created using the hybrid
way. You didnt know that, did you? The
performance is great, the experience is great.
But wait Theres another quick way to go by
creating a mobile app for your estore! App
Builders! You get native mobile applications for
iOS as well as Android under 400 since they
have the basic components ready for an estore,
you just need to white label the solution and
publish it on app stores.
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How? Using our Magento 2 mobile app builder.
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etty.com/blog/how-the-mobile-app-world-i
s-changing-the-hybrid-wave/