Hybrid apps are actually developed using a combination of the native and HTML5-based web features. An HTML5 mobile app is basically a web page, or chain of web pages, that are developed to run on a small screen. Hybrid development unites the best and leaves the worst points of both the native and HTML5 platforms. Hybrid app can also be called as a web app, which is initially developed using HTML5 and JavaScript and then it is wrapped in a lean native container that makes it accessible to native platform features as well. Apart, from being a bit slow platform in accessing NFC, Bluetooth, etc and requires a third party plug-in, hybrid platform has handful of advantages.
A hybrid application has a potential to develop applications using Android, Windows and Blackberry in spite of the factor that each of the platform requires different development environment, language and framework. To get a prominent presence in the app store without spending significant effort for developing a different app, companies develop hybrid apps as wrappers for an existing web page. Moreover, hybrid apps are also popular because they allow cross-platform development. That means, developers can reuse the same HTML code components on different mobile operating systems, which in turn, reduces significantly the development costs. Tools like PhoneGap and Sencha Touch allow users to design and code across platforms, using the power of HTML.
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