Mobile phones are now called as Smartphones. What makes it Smart? Well, along with powerful hardware, the smartphones possess a wide range of inbuilt apps and support other apps in the app market. The apps are referred to as programs that perform predefined functions and can run on the mobile devices. Nowadays, there seems to be an app for everything, from checking recent updates on sports, learning tutorials, checking breaking news, social networking and for doing bookings and more. Earlier, the apps were developed to take PC-based applications to the mobile devices and now, the approach is to create apps specifically designed for the mobile environment.
There are different types of apps, developed by IT consulting companies based on the mobile development technology used for the app creation.
1. Native Mobile Application – The applications run directly from the handheld device. It can be downloaded from the relevant mobile store and installed on the device. It is developed to be used on a particular platform or device. Like, the app is coded with a specific programming language, for iOS objective C, Java for android operating system. Hence, duplicate versions of the app needs to be created to enable it to run on other platforms. The native apps can utilize the device functionalities like camera, contact et al.
2. Hybrid mobile applications – They are like native apps and are written with web technologies that is hosted inside the native app container. They allow cross platform development as the particular web code can be used on various operating systems. Often, a web development company creates hybrid apps as wrappers for an existing web page. This reduces the development cost. These apps can also use device functionalities.
3. Mobile web applications – It is just the loading of the traditional web applications on the mobile device browser. The applications can be customized to provide fast and efficient loading of the website content.
There are different types of apps, developed by IT consulting companies based on the mobile development technology used for the app creation.
1. Native Mobile Application – The applications run directly from the handheld device. It can be downloaded from the relevant mobile store and installed on the device. It is developed to be used on a particular platform or device. Like, the app is coded with a specific programming language, for iOS objective C, Java for android operating system. Hence, duplicate versions of the app needs to be created to enable it to run on other platforms. The native apps can utilize the device functionalities like camera, contact et al.
2. Hybrid mobile applications – They are like native apps and are written with web technologies that is hosted inside the native app container. They allow cross platform development as the particular web code can be used on various operating systems. Often, a web development company creates hybrid apps as wrappers for an existing web page. This reduces the development cost. These apps can also use device functionalities.
3. Mobile web applications – It is just the loading of the traditional web applications on the mobile device browser. The applications can be customized to provide fast and efficient loading of the website content.
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