Native Vs Hybrid
There are three ways to deliver an application on Mobiles – 1. Native – Built on Native Mobile Platform 2. HTML 5 – Works in browser 3. Hybrid – Built with HTML5, Can access native features It is clear that user spend 80% of their time using Apps on mobile. That is four times more than the time they spend in browsing. Hence, browser based HTML 5 application is not the preferred way to deliver your mobile application. We have two options left before us. One, build a native application using the mobile OS platform (ex: Android or iOS). Second, use your HTML5 skills to quickly build an application and make it work as a native app on all platform using build frameworks such as PhoneGap. Many have tried to compare and contrast Native and Hybrid. In this article I will summarize the analysis I have done over this subject matter. After going through lot of articles and presentations, a presentation from propelics appealed to me. It is unbiased and to the point. Below are the...