Comparison of web app, native app and hybrid app

Classification of app

It can be roughly divided into these three categories:

Native app (native app)

Web app

Hybrid app (mixed app)

Native App refers to the native application on mobile, apk for Android and ipa for iOS. Native App is a third-party application that is based on mobile operating systems (iOS and Android) and runs using native programs. Web App refers to the Web browser on the mobile side, which is no different from the Web browser on the PC side, except that the operating system on which the Web browser depends is no longer Windows and Linux, but iOS and Android. Hybrid App takes advantage of Web App and Native App to display HTML5 pages through a native Native Container. The more popular way of saying it boils down to embedding Webview in native mobile apps and then accessing web pages through that Webview.

Which type of app should be used in the specific development process?

Choose different development methods for different page situations.

If a large piece of text (such as news, playbook, etc.) appears in app, and the format is rich (such as bold, various fonts, etc.), H5 is better. Reason: native development is not very friendly to parsing json string format. If you pay attention to app response speed (including page switching fluency), use native development. Reason: H5 is essentially a web page, when you change a web page, you basically have to load the entire page, just like a browser opens a new web page, which is relatively slow, while the native system only needs to load the changed parts. If app is sensitive to whether there is a network or not, the advantages and disadvantages of the network (such as offline operations, online operations), then use native development. Although H5 can do this, it is sensitive to adopt native development if app wants to frequently call hardware devices (such as cameras, microphones, etc.), which supports more hardware and faster invocation speed. H5 can't match if app users frequently change pages (such as various marketing activities on the home page of Taobao), use H5 It's easier to maintain if the budget is limited (H5 develops a set that can be used on Android, iOS, BlackBerry, etc.), doesn't care about user experience, doesn't care about loading speed, it must be H5.

Hybrid App is the mainstream mobile application development mode at present because of its simple maintenance and update, excellent user experience and good cross-platform characteristics.