May 1, 2018 / Eternal Team
Many of the users have a question that whether Hybrid apps are different from the our regular apps like whatsapp, facebook or instagram ?
As per my view, it is not. Hybrid applications are also similar to the general apps out of which many are build on Hybrid frameworks. Like Facebook and Instagram are purelly hybrid application. Then let’s know about What is Hybrid application? and What are the key perks of using a hybrid framework? In this article i have described about Hybrid application and how we can take advantage of it.
What is Hybrid application ?
Hybrid applications are similar to the native mobile mobile application in nature like we can install a hybrid app from the app store or play store, we can store data inside it, we can play with it, we can take photos with it, we can access web pages, etc. We can do most of the things that the native apps can with Hybrid technology.
In hybrid app the Page Layout is rendered in a native webview, and we can also access the hardware controls from it.
Frameworks for Hybrid App development ?
Coming to development for Hybrid application we have many choices of hybrid framework which themselves have their own features and limitations, Hence we have to choose one smartly.
This 4 frameworks are trending and also have a large community, frequent updates, open source licence, good documentation. These are all based on HTML, CSS and JavaScript but Ionic comes with angular 2 as it’s base-framework, so if you know angular 2 or later you can easily develop the application with Ionic.
Feature that ionic provides are Extraordinary and Hance Ionic has become one of the tranding framework in Hybrid app development industry.
Why ionic is different from others ?
Ready made components
Own native library and plugins
Theming
Premium support