Mobile Applications Differentiating With Developing and Changing Technology
Along with the developing and changing technology, web and mobile applications differentiate platforms for maintaining a presence, business development, marketing, increasing sales and establishing active communication.
Mobile application development refers to the creation and development of optimized software for mobile devices such as smartphones or tablet computers, leveraging hardware and product features. Since the mobile application can work by establishing a network connection, the mobile application development process includes creating installable software packages (code, binaries, assets, etc.), data access with an API (Application programming interface) and testing on target devices.
While the simplest applications involve porting PC-based applications to a mobile device, some applications involve custom application development taking advantage of their limitations and advantages. (e.g. location based apps)
There are four different approaches to mobile app development.
- Native Mobile Apps
- Cross-Platform Native Mobile Apps
- Hybrid Mobile Applications
- Progressive Web Applications
When choosing the right development approaches for projects, Application Developers consider the user experience, computing resources required for the application, budget, time criteria, and resources available to maintain the application. When choosing between these approaches, it is necessary to take into account that each approach has advantages and disadvantages.
1-Local Mobile Applications
It can work directly in the operating system of the device such as Android and IOS. It is written in the programming language and norms provided by the platform owner.
2-Cross-Platform Applications
It is compiled into a native application running on the device’s operating system. It can be written in different norms and programming languages.
3-Mixed (Hybrid) Mobile Applications
It is created with standard web technologies such as JavaScript, CSS and HTML5 and written as application installation packages. Unlike native apps, Apache runs on a web container that provides a browser and bridge to native device APIs through Cordova.
4-Stage Web Applications
It offers an alternative approach to traditional mobile application development. PWAs (advanced web application) can work offline to provide an application-like user experience. Background processes are web apps that use the browser feature to add links to the device home screen.