Hybrid mobile apps are the applications that can be installed on a device, just like any other app. What makes them different is the fact that they possess elements from native apps, and applications are developed for a specific platform such as iOS or Android They are deployed in a native container that uses a mobile WebView object. When the app is used, this object displays web content of technologies like CSS, kotline, swift, JavaScript, HTML, HTML5.It is in fact displaying web pages from a desktop website that are adapted to a Web View display. The web content can either be displayed as soon as the app is opened or for certain parts of the app only.
In order to access a device's hardware features like camera, contacts etc for which the native apps are installed, it is possible to include native elements of each platform’s user interfaces like iOS,Android and native code will be used to access the specific features in order to create a easier and professional user experience. Hybrid apps can also applied on platforms that offer JavaScript APIs if those functionalities are called within a WebView.
Hybrid apps offer a certain number of advantages which includes mainly Combining user interface with an agile development cycle and controlled costs. They also avoid the limitations, of the apple app store so to deploy an application on the Apple App Store, the app has to be submitted and there is a waiting time for validation. The delay will vary depending on the time of the year, but also depending on whether it is a first submission or an update. It generally takes between 1 to 7 days. Hybrid apps thus offer a great advantage for developers who wish to update their app frequently as it is not necessary to resubmit the new version if the modifications haven’t touched native code. In finding resourses most applications have an iOS version and an Android version. They are thus developed using the corresponding programming languages like Objective-C or Swift for iOS, Java,Kotlin for Android. Hybrid apps allow for the use of programming languages used frequently by web developers (HTML, JavaScript and CSS) who can thus reuse their knowledge. This makes finding resources to build a hybrid app easier. Reusing the code of the web app by writing the code once and deployed across all mobile platforms is another advantage of hybrid apps.
