The Mobile App Developer Perspective

Whether you plan to use your internal IT team to develop your mobile app, or engage a mobile application development expert, you are likely to find that the development team has a preference (or certainly an opinion) on how to approach the project to ensure that it has the greatest likelihood of success.

While your internal IT team may wish to participate in this effort, engaging an expert means you have the benefit of experience and skills across all tools and approaches –Native and Hybrid tools included.

When you talk to experienced developers, they will tell you that there is a trend toward cross-platform development and away from the native approach. Building, testing and maintaining code for two operating systems (OS) is expensive and time consuming. Hybrid mobile applications support web technologies like JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS and they provide access to native platforms as well. When you design only for a native environment, you are satisfying one operating system and using tools developed for that platform so the solution is not as flexible.

The Mobile Application User Perspective

By taking the hybrid mobile application approach you can sell your app across the market, or provide an app to your business users and internal team members, no matter what type of device your users own or prefer. Some users may have an iOS at work and an Android at home, so a hybrid mobile app approach will allow users to access data and perform tasks, no matter which device they happen to be using at the time. Whether your clients, partners, suppliers or team members use one operating system more often than another, you can serve them today and, if they choose to purchase and use another operating system tomorrow, you can serve them in the future as well. he one-code, hybrid mobile application approach allows your users to access your mobile application, perform tasks and view information and works equally well, no matter the size or resolution of the screen, the operating system or the type of device. Apple and Android devices are served equally and your app can reside in the Google Play or Apple App Store for easy user access.