INTRODUCTION

At present time, there are approximately 3.45 billion mobile users worldwide. Most of the people are using one or the other app on their mobiles at any point in time and spend most of their time in there. Due to this, app developers are increasingly developing apps that can be used on a variety of devices using various operating systems including Android, iOS, and Windows. Thus, hybrid mobile applications can be defined as the creation of a single application that can run on multiple operating systems including Android, iOS, and Windows (write once, run anywhere); and are capable of running smoothly on any platform a user prefers.

For these reasons, creating a hybrid mobile app is a must-have for early-stage ventures and start-ups.

HYBRID MOBILE APP DEVELOPMENT

Hybrid Mobile apps are also sometimes referred to as cross-platform mobile apps; however, most hybrid apps use a mix of native and web components. Hybrid Mobile apps usually include HTML, CSS, and Javascript in addition to a common language codebase for cross-platform.

One of the most common hybrid mobile app development approaches is leveraging a Webkit feature of mobile devices. Webkit is a web browser engine on a phone without any visible toolbar and status bars. Applications can embed a web-kit browser inside the apps to load web pages from the web, or from the local phone storage.

CROSS-PLATFORM FRAMEWORKS

The major trend reshaping the hybrid app development realm is the increasing use of multi-platform development frameworks. React Native by Facebook, and Flutter by Google are two of the most popular platforms for hybrid app development. Both of these platforms are popular among cross-platform app developers due to their combinability and flexibility, but competing frameworks like Native Script, Xamarin, and NoCode frameworks also exist.

COST OF HYBRID APP DEVELOPMENT

No one can tell a fixed price for hybrid software. However, compared to native mobile apps, hybrid mobile apps are less expensive to build. Usually, the cost will depend on the time required for the app to be created, its features and design and costs anywhere from $10,000 to $250,000 and above

BENEFITS OF HYBRID APP DEVELOPMENT

The reason why so many businesses go hybrid is that hybrid mobile apps cost less than the native ones. What’s more, it takes less time to create them and it is easier to manage them. Here are the five major benefits of hybrid app development:

• Easier to Scale on another Platform
• Only One Codebase to Manage
• Faster Build Time
• Low Cost of Development
• Offline Availability

DISADVANTAGES

However, hybrid app development has a few disadvantages:

• User experience
• Lower performance
• Availability of features
• Errors

MOST POPULAR HYBRID APPS

You wouldn’t think that some of the world’s big brands would choose hybrid apps over native ones. The most widely used hybrid apps are Instagram, Uber, Gmail, Evernote, Twitter to name a few.

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