We often get Hybrid App Development Requests; Why are Hybrid Apps Trending?

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  • a year ago
We often get Hybrid App Development Requests; Why are Hybrid Apps Trending?

When it comes to app development you have a plethora of options to choose from. Whether you should build a native app, a web app, or a hybrid app? This entirely depends on what suits your business requirements the best.

There is often a debate about implementing Native or Hybrid frameworks and technologies. Developers debate on which technology to choose over another. So, let us have a technical outlook on it. 

 

The Hybrid & Native App Debate:

 

HYBRID AppsNATIVE Apps
A unified codebase to render on multiple platforms.Different codes for each platform.
Renders seamlessly on different devices and screen sizes.Restricted to the type of device and screen size.
Hassle-free and easy to maintain.Difficulty to maintain because of multiple codebases.
Easy to modify, update, and upgradeChanges and modifications become complex, once deployed.
Cost-effective and time-savingHigh investments and time consuming
Xamarin, Iconic, React Native.Swift, Kotlin, Java, Objective C.

 

As a web and mobile app development company, we are getting lots of requests for developing apps with hybrid frameworks. Hybrid apps are highly trending. Even statistics suggest the same.

According to Statista one-third of mobile app developers worldwide choose to develop apps using hybrid frameworks and technologies.

Whereas, according to GitHub, 40% of more hybrid apps are now available in the App stores.

In this blog, we are giving an insight into what are Hybrid apps and why they are trending, with some popular examples. So, starting with a brief introduction.

 

What is a hybrid App?

 

A hybrid app or a cross-platform app is a blend of a native app and a web app. The source code of a hybrid app is from web technologies programmed in JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. Whereas its shell is covered in a native app. Simply put, the hybrid app is a web app wrapped into a native app.

 

Why Hybrid Apps are Highly Trending?

 

The reason why hybrid apps are in trend is because of their versatility and the slew of advantages they offer. Hybrid apps have a straightforward backend and they look & feel like native apps.

The advantages of hybrid apps are:

 

 

Unified Codebase with Minimum Requirements:

 

What do you need to build a codebase for Hybrid apps? JavaScript, HTML, or CSS; choose any one programming language and start building the code. A single code runs seamlessly on all platforms.

Unlike native apps that require different codes built in different languages (Java, Objective-C, Swift, etc) to suit different platforms. You need to develop a single source code for a hybrid app that can be easily reused and modified.

So, leverage the existing development tool kit and start building a unified codebase for different platforms.

 

Enhanced UI/UX:

 

What brings a user back to your app? An Amazing User Experience, right? More than 70% of users are judging the credibility of your business depending solely on its aesthetics.

With Hybrid apps, your users get to enjoy the advantages of both native apps and web apps. Hybrid apps are consistently flawless across each platform, and their responsive design helps them render seamlessly across each viewport.

Content, graphics, and media load effortlessly on hybrid apps, owing to its lightweight structure. Besides, it supports high data streaming and gets quickly approved at the app stores.

 

Wider Market Reach:

 

Who doesn’t want hassle-free app development? Build a source code and done! Easy to operate, easy to maintain, and easy to modify. Bonus, Excellent UI, quick loading, and seamless performance across all platforms. These factors are widening the market reach of hybrid apps.

 

Innovation & Creativity:

 

What draws more audience to your app? Your app’s x-factor. The more innovative, creative, and unique your app is, the more audience it draws.

Unlike native apps, hybrid apps are slick and intelligent. It easily communicates with the device’s operating system to convey its inbuilt capabilities. This opens the ground for innovation & creativity giving you a wide canvas to portray your ideas.

 

High-Speed Capabilities:

 

How does loading speed matter? If your app does not load within 2 to 3 seconds, users are likely to abandon it. 70% of users are likely to abandon an app/site if it takes more time in loading.

Hybrid apps are faster as compared to native and web apps. They quickly load the content, graphics and media.

With the help of AI/ML, hybrid apps can understand the audience better. As a result, it can easily establish frontend and backend communication. Conveying data to & fro between the User Interface and database, hybrid apps deliver quick & accurate responses.

Besides, they have less dependency on network communications and can handle heavy user loads efficiently.

 

Offline Support:

 

What if the users go offline? It’s a challenge for software development companies to cater requirements of remote and rural areas where internet connectivity is an issue. The hybrid app supports intermittent connectivity and network fluctuations. It stores important user information and puts it on display when there are network issues. Hence it offers uninterrupted access to the app’s data and eliminates performance glitches.

 

Cloud Support and Enterprise-Level Solution:

 

Several hybrid apps connect to the cloud by the ‘exchange integration code approach.’ It enables interaction with cloud providers like Google, Microsoft, AWS, and others.

The requirements of small, medium and large enterprises are entirely different from one another. Hybrid apps cater to their needs depending on the type of requirements.

 

Cost-effective:

 

How can you save money with hybrid apps? To build a hybrid app you need a single codebase that runs on all platforms. So, the resources, cost, and time you were previously spending to build, deploy, and maintain different codebases for different platforms in native apps are narrowed to one. Hence, hybrid apps are cost-effective and have lower development and maintenance costs.
 

Easy Maintenance:

 

What about maintenance? A unified codebase makes it very easy to maintain hybrid apps.

Native apps have a different codebase for different platforms. So, the developers have to roll out new versions with each update for every platform.

With Hybrid apps, updating to the newer version becomes as easy as updating a webpage. Updates and upgrades are feasible, viable, simple and instant with hybrid apps.

 

Enhanced Performance:

 

With Twitter and Instagram, hybrid apps have set a high-performance standard. Hybrid apps are faster and perform better as compared to native, progressive, or responsive apps. Easily handling a heavy user load, these apps are known for seamless performance across all viewports and all platforms.

Moreover, Hybrid apps perform excellently supporting fully featured UI designs, navigation, and offline usage. There are no performance issues with hybrid apps. To prove this, we are bringing forward to you examples of the most popular Hybrid Apps.

 

Which are the Most Popular examples of Hybrid Apps?

 

To clear that 0.01% of your doubt, we have a list of the most popular Hybrid Apps with their usage statistics. 

 

Twitter:

Twitter has a large user base with 217 million daily active users as of 2021. Twitter incredibly handles a massive user load without any performance issues. Twitter is the best example proving the high-performance standards of hybrid apps in handling massive user loads in real-time.

 

Instagram:

Instagram has 1.21 billion monthly active users, accounting for 28% of the global internet users. Instagram supports rich media as well as offline streaming, and it is most popular for signature short videos. Instagram sets an example for the high performance of hybrid apps supporting offline mode.

 

Gmail:

Gmail is one of the leading online communication channels having over 1.5 billion global user bases. Google’s Gmail is programmed in HTML syntax and has both native and HTML elements. Gmail renders seamlessly on all viewports and is known for its ease of operation. Gmail sets an example for hybrid apps rendering seamlessly across all platforms and all viewports.

 

Evernote:

Evernote is a task management application that helps in taking notes, planning to-do lists, archiving, and orchestration. Evernote is making user’s lives easy with a 225 million global user base.

Evernote has an intuitive and advanced functionality framework. With its beautiful design and pleasant UX Evernote performs efficiently across all devices and platforms. It is proving that performance is not an issue with fully featured Hybrid apps.

 

UBER:

Uber is a ride-sharing app.  Uber has over 93 million active users worldwide. Uber sets an excellent example of a hybrid app by a display of simple interface and accurate navigation.

 

Baskin Robbins:

With over 1 million downloads on the Google Play Store and over 4 million downloads on the Apple’s app store, Baskin Robbins hybrid app has been showered with love from ice cream lovers across the world. Baskin Robbins has an impressive app that uses HTML5. It displays a consistent UI across different platforms and viewports, as well as enables streaming in offline mode.

 

Pacifica:

Pacifica is one of the leading mental health apps that connect 1.7 million users to therapists through telehealth and Live consultation. Pacifica app is a hybrid app that looks and feels like a native app. Its features are rowed as web layers wrapped in native navigation.

 

Wrapping Up!

 

When you have many options to choose from? Why not choose the best and the most trending? Native apps have many advantages over hybrid apps in terms of reliability, security, functionality, and personalization. However, Hybrid apps win the game when it comes to cost efficacy, unified code, code reusability, time-saving, offline usage, and most importantly high performance. Even after development and deployment, the source code of hybrid apps can be easily modified.

After spending years in the web app and mobile app development, we have closely studied our clients and their requirements.

At Cubet, we have an expert team of hybrid app architects and developers. Let us build your app together and see it manifest from an idea into a profitable app. We give amazing app advice and suggestions. Let us connect!
 

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