Native vs. Cross Platform App Development

This blog is a primer aimed at listing out the differences between Native and Hybrid App development platforms. While the selection criterion should be business goal specific, there are other factors to check too before selecting one. Read on…

Native Applications:

Native mobile app development is followed by app developers for appropriate mobile platforms. They work holistically, faster and use the platform’s entire functionality such as NFC, Bluetooth and many other features that are found including pressure, temperature and humidity sensors. Although, since both iOS (iPad, iPhone) occupy a grater pie of the mobile native applications market, it is often considered important to build the app versions for both platforms, and this in turn increases the cost and time of development. This said native apps are remarkable for their high functionality, powerful performance and reliability.

Pros:

1. Access to the flexibility and entire range of native SDKs.
2. The logic of native app is natural for the app platform it is assigned for
3. Perfect and easiest integration of state-of-the-art features appearing upon the growth of the platform.
4. Designs made to stick to the particular logic of the OS.

Cons:

1. Development cost is higher
2. The various levels of design can retard development
3. It requires a lot of continuous updates

Hybrid Apps

Hybrid app development is nothing but programming using JavaScript and HTML5 to build an app that is utilized across a range of different platforms. Essentially this option is a faster, cheaper solution in the market place than developing two native apps.

Pros

1. Hybrid applications can be utilized on a number of platforms with single implementation, thereby saving on cost and time.
2. Updates are simple as you need to update only one code base

Cons:

1. User Experience (UX) is not device specific.
2. It lacks the functionality of native apps
3. Slower performance compared to native apps

So which is better?

As mentioned above, each mobile app development method comes with its own pros and cons. Conventional wisdom is that the key factor that should go into the selection of the app development platform is the specific business task or solution, which the app is intended to deliver. Contact us today so that our technical consultants can work out which would be the best app platform for you so that you can save on app development cost and time.