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Native or Hybrid? — Let’s make biriyani.
Biriyani for most Indians is like pizza for most of the western people. Once they start craving it, they only want more.
If we can imagine the same urge in creating the right app for your business, it’s very common to face a basic confusion. Which app would suit you the best — native or hybrid?
Biriyani can be ordered online, or you could bring home a chef to cook it for you. Either way, you’re eating biriyani — but they’ll definitely taste different. Similarly, though both native and hybrid apps will satisfy the basic needs and functionality of an app, they’ll greatly differ in their UX (User Experience) and UI (User Interface).
Native apps are like calling the chef(developer) home to cook for you. As there are different varieties of biriyani, like Hyderabad and Dindukal, we also need different apps for different platforms, like iOS or Android. It’s very important to retain the unique “taste” of each variety and create precisely what you want.
Hybrid apps, on the other hand, are like ordering from a restaurant — they provide one kind of biriyani to everyone. It’s easier, and saves time and effort, but there aren’t many options to customize it. It’s the go-to option if you think all apps are the same and you just need something up and running as soon as possible.
The recipe.
Native apps are written in specific languages for different platforms., So let’s look into the major market players, iOS and Android. Two different app versions have to be built for your app using ‘Swift or Objective-C’ for iOS and ‘Java or Kotlin’ for Android. Two versions double development process, increasing cost and time.
Hybrid apps are actually websites wrapped inside a native app container. So it is built similar to web apps using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript with a single base code and runs in all mobile platforms seamlessly. Hybrid apps are also built on other platforms like PhoneGap, Xamarin, React Native, Nativescript and Ionic.
The flavors.
What is biriyani without flavors, and what is an app without its features? The more it offers the better we remember it for. As native apps are platform-specific, they can easily access and use inbuilt hardware elements like camera, mic, GPS, accelerometer etc. They can send push notifications and provide best-in-class security, performance, and offline access.
Hybrid tastes a bit different with its portability and the ability to access inbuilt hardware elements through plug-ins. They do not need API’s as everything is handled via the web.
The garnish.
Your taste buds are replaced every ten days.
Updates are inevitable in any app. Hybrid apps can be updated with ease, as we are changing things only on the server, which then loads into the app without any need to update the app itself.
Updating a native app involves the user, every update has to wait for approval from the respective app store before it can be installed manually by the user.
Still hungry and confused?
For any business seeking growth, native apps are clear winners. Hybrid apps are lower in cost and faster in development time, but they’re useful only in the initial phase of a business.
But what if you can build native apps as fast as hybrid, and yet at a much cheaper cost?
Can you cook the biriyani yourself? Well, we don’t know about cooking biriyani, but we know building a fully functional native app is much easier than that. With low-code platforms like Zoho Creator, building an app has become as simple as dragging and dropping elements. That is all it takes to build an app.
Low-code apps could be your ultimate solution; they cut down the cost and time drastically yet give all the native features to the apps created. Apps built on Zoho Creator can be accessed seamlessly over different platforms with high-end UX and UI.
Zoho Creator comes with more than 50 pre-built apps that suit businesses and customer relations across a wide range of fields.
Visit https://www.zoho.com/creator for your 14 day trial where you can install apps and start using them right away or create your app from scratch. It is time you push aside the confusion between native or hybrid — low-code it is. Let’s make biriyani.
Native or Hybrid? — Let’s cook biriyani. was originally published in Hacker Noon on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.
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