Mobile Application Development Services - Popular Approaches Used By Vendors

It's difficult to choose the most suitable mobile application development approach when so many smart phones and tablet applications available in the market.
Number of enterprises approach vendors to develop business mobile applications. It's the vendor who should follow the best development process, keeping in mind the domain of the company they are associating with, their clientele, the effect that the mobile application will have on their business.

We will discuss three different approaches, which can be followed to develop any mobile application:

Conventional Applications

These applications get stored in the device as it uses smart phone functionalities and features for running. These applications do not rely on any container application to function. It directly interacts with mobile operating system without any intermediary application. Such applications use APIs provided by the vendor. It also displays the look and feel of the device.

Web Applications

Nowadays smart phones are equipped with powerful browsers, which support many HTML 5 capabilities - advanced JavaScript and CSS3. Vendors can develop websites that can be sourced to a mobile and can display web pages suitable for smaller screen. Such mobile applications can also be designed in a way so that it can appear to be native application but not actually being one. Often, its functionality can also look like the native application apart from its appearance. Web applications are server-side and can be developed using any server-side technology for instance  xCode/Objective-C.  This trend has actually boomed in the recent past.

Hybrid Applications

Such apps are developed if you want to design a flexible mobile application after fusing the web and native components. Technically, a hybrid application is a native application coupled with embedded HTML. It has all the advantages of native application with access to all the APIs. Some of the specific parts of the application are designed using web technologies.

These are the most popular types of development methodologies that can be used to develop any mobile application. Every approach serve specific purpose of application. Keeping in view the  requirements, different methods of developing application should be considered.

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