A Comprehensive Comparison between Hybrid and Native App Paradigms

摘要

Mobile apps have been growing drastically both in quantity and quality in recent years, so many kinds of apps emerged but in general there are mainly two widely used mobile application development paradigms-native app mode and hybrid app mode. Native app paradigm is platform-based and the original way of mobile app developing, hybrid app paradigm is a newly emerged product based on cross-platform framework and HTML5 language, both paradigms have generated many great apps. In order to determine which one is the better way of producing an app, this article introduces the hybrid app paradigm, and analyzes the pros and cons of both paradigms in theory and experiment.