As an expert app developer and apps development services provider, we have to walk through all the stages involved in developing a mobile app. I have solid experience in the area and have developed hundreds of apps for different clients from different parts of the world having different types of businesses.
You might have seen hundreds of applications installed in smartphones serving different purposes. This can lead you to think that maybe there are countless types of applications. But to cut a long story short; let me tell you that there are only three types of mobile applications and many categories.
In this article, I would like to share my knowledge regarding the types of mobile apps.
Types of Mobile Applications
Web Apps
Web apps are the most common and widely used type of mobile application because this is the best choice for a startup. Web apps are a mobile version of a regular desktop website and they can work on any mobile device or OS because modern smartphones have access to everything that is required to display the content of the webpage. This is the power of HTML5. These apps are cost-effective and easy to develop. Cross-platform compatibility is another benefit of having a web application for your business.
Tools and Technologies: HTML5,CSS,JS,C#, Ruby and other similar technologies
Hybrid applications
Hybrid apps are a mixture of native and web apps. With this approach, you get access to all the pluses of the operating system API: the application is surrounded by push notifications and other nice goodies, in addition, now your product can be placed in stores. The main content will be placed on the server. It is, in fact, a platform-independent page with a design layout. This gives us the flexibility to make changes in the design without developing the entire application. Hybrid applications best suit to the new or growing businesses.
Tools and Technologies: Ionic, C#, Swift, HTML5, and other similar technologies
Native apps
Native apps in simple words are built-in apps. These apps are designed specifically for the operating system the mobile is using. These applications are fast and allow us to take maximum benefits the mobile operating system is offering. Because of hardware and operating system compatibility, native applications perform better than the web and hybrid applications. These apps are resource-intensive. As we know that these applications come with the mobile operating system, they have permission to access other hardware features, like Bluetooth, phone contacts, etc. resulting in high efficiency.
Tools and Technologies: Java, C#, Python, Objective-C, C++, React and other similar technologies
