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| Mobile
Application Development |
We
have expertise in developing Mobile Application on various
platforms such as iOS, BlackBerry, Android and Windows. Also
capable of developing Mobile Applications regardless of the
platform versions and complexity involved. We provide application
development services all over in India.
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| Differences
between types of apps |
Native
Apps are built using the development tools and languages
(XCode and Objective C for iOS apps, Eclipse, Android Studio and
Java for Android, Visual Studio and C# for Windows) that the
respective platforms support and so run only on their targeted
platforms.
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HTML5
Apps are cross-platform mobile applications that run on
multiple devices since they mostly run on browsers. Developers can
write complex apps using standard web technologies HTML5,
JavaScript and CSS.
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Hybrid
Apps are the applications that are developed using HTML5,
JavaScript and css, but run with in web-view container on the
devices and so the applications are packaged natively and so has
access to native API of the OS also.
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| Pros
and Cons of Individual Technology |
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Native App
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Pros:
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Native apps have the
best performance and use the last available hardware resource to
improve performance.
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Applications will work
in offline mode.
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The apps are
distributed through platforms App store providing better visibility
to the prospective users.
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Your application will
have access to the latest API's, releases on that platform.
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The apps are built in
languages the platform supports and so, has access to IDEs which
provide the best tools to develop, debug the project fast.
Example:
Linked-in, Facebook
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Cons:
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Need huge budgets to
support all the platforms that have considerable markets. Need to
maintain multiple teams, one team per platform you want to support.
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App updates needs to be
downloaded by users and so need to maintain several versions of
Apps on your web server if not properly designed.
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Availability of
developers.
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Web App
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Pros:
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HTML5 mobile app is
similar to a normal web app, except that they are designed to work
at smaller screens.
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The distribution of
these apps is very easy. Just deploy the web app on your web server
and users access it from their browsers.
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There are some very
good mobile UI frameworks like JQuery Mobile, Sencha Touch and of
course my favorite mgwt which provides several widgets for mobile.
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These apps can probably
reach out all platforms since they run on browsers and all the
modern smart phones have a browser.
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The development and
testing of these apps is easier as they are similar to normal web
apps where you have tooling support.
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Cons:
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These apps don't have
access to the native functionality.
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Performance doesn't
match with native apps.
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Can be work in offline
mode, but doesn't match what native apps provide.
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Hybrid Apps
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Pros:
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Hybrid apps are faster
to develop since most of the development is done in web
technologies which are cross platform and do very small amount of
native coding, only when access to native layers is required. So
only small portion of the code needs to be re-implemented for other
platforms .This saves development time and cost and you can
concentrate on developing new features rather than replicating the
same features on each platform.
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You are near to "Write
Once, Run Anywhere", the strategy that made Java such a dominant
force.
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These applications can
be deployed in platform specific app stores.
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They can access the
native layers.
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These apps can work in
offline mode.
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There is prediction
that by 2017 more than 50 % of the apps deployment will be in
Hybrid apps.
Example: Netflix
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Cons:
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Hybrid apps, even
though are packaged natively are not native apps. They execute on
the platforms web engine, Webkit in case of Android and iOS which
is another layer between the user and the application and so the
performance is less as compared with the native apps.
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