Types of Mobile Apps

What is a Mobile App and why is it important?

Mobile App is a computer application designed to run on a Mobile Device which could be a mobile phone, a tablet or a phablet. The mobile app simply solves the purpose of an easy connection and interaction for its users.

A Mobile App Developer or a Mobile App Development Company designs and develops the Mobile Apps after the in-depth analysis of the purpose of the mobile app and users' requirements and preferences.

What is the requirement of a Mobile App?

With the increasing automation in every sector of our professional as well as our personal life, Mobile Phone has become the necessity of our life.

We have become so much dependent on Mobile Phones that we are using it for almost every activity in our day to day life, like listening to music, watching videos, playing games, reading books, studying notes, socializing through social networking, checking emails, making payments, and many more.

This is the reason, mobile users are increasing day by day. More & more apps are continuously launching every day.

In the year 2019, there were approximately 2.6 million android apps and 2.2 million of ios apps available for users.

People prefer the Mobile App rather than scrolling a website because it gives speedy user experience. That is the reason, people focus on website development with a mobile app. It is accessible at every time and every place as Mobile is a handy thing and can be carried easily anywhere.

Mobile App allows the 24X7 connectivity & thus keeps us updated through alerts and notifications.

Why Mobile App is important for the Business?

CRM & ERP development with Mobile Apps is really high in demand by businesses.

Nobody can ignore the importance of Mobile App in business because it gives the following advantages to the business
1. More Visibility.
2. Better Brand Recognition.
3. Increased Customer Loyalty.
4. Increased Customer Services.

What are the Different Types of Mobile Apps?

Most of us are aware that we usually talk about the mobile device operating systems we mean by Android & IOS. As of 2019, Android Controls 85% of the total world's mobile market and Apple owns a major from the balance.

Android is developed and supported by Google and it is more like an open-source platform, though IOS is developed and supported by Apple and specifically used on its devices only.

Unfortunately Android & IOS can not run together on a single device, that is the reason we need different types of mobile app for different platforms.

Mainly there are 3 Types of Mobile Apps

Native Apps

These Apps are built for a specific operating system, which means these apps are native for a particular type of Operating System, for example, Android Apps, can not be used on iPhones. The reason behind it is, these types of Mobile Apps are developed in the native language of the respective platform i.e. these uses the specific platform languages like Objective C for iOS, Java for Android and C# for Windows Phone.

Benefits of Native Apps

- Fast in Speed & better user interface.
- Easily interact with any of the phone's features.
- More interactive and Intuitive.

Few Examples of Native Mobile Apps

- PokemonGo

- Twitter

- Waze

Cross-Platform Native Apps

Native Apps have the limitation of being developed separately for each platform. To overcome this limitation, many alternatives have been invented as a cross-platform development platform like Xamarian, Facebook's React Native, Titanium, & Flutter

Few Examples of Cross-Platform Native Mobile Apps

- Xamarian - Slack, Pinterest & Honeywell

- React Native - Facebook, Walmart & Airbnb

- Titanium - eBay, Zipcar & Paypal

Hybrid Apps

A hybrid application is an application that combines the features of both Native Apps & Web Apps. In other words, Hybrid apps are basically web apps that are deployed in a native container. It includes the feature of an embedded browser to enhance access to dynamic content.

These are built with JavaScript & CSS and run in Webview.

PhoneGap, Cardova & Canvas are some of the hybrid app platforms for mobile app development.

Benefits of Hybrid Mobile Apps

- Mobile App can be deployable across multiple platforms.
- Enhanced User Experience
- Controlled Costs
- Development takes less time.

Few Examples of Hybrid Mobile Apps

- Untapped

- Sworkit

- Tripline

Web Apps

These are known as the Responsive Website Version. It is an application that is accessed via a web browser over a network like internet. It uses a combination of server-side scripts like PHP & asp to handle the storage & retrieval of the information and client-side scripts like JavaScript, CSS, and HTML5 to present information to users.

Progressive Web Apps are web applications that open and load as normal websites or webpages but provide many additional functionalities over the regular web pages. By using these apps, you will get some special functionalities like push notifications, offline operations, etc. 

Benefits of Web Apps

- Web Apps run on multiple platforms.
- These are not required to be installed on the device.
- Lower in Cost.

Examples of Web Apps

- Flipkart

- Twitter Lite

- BookMyShow

- OLX

Before stepping forward towards the Mobile App Development, one should always consider the answers of following questions:-

Q. Who is the user?

Q. Should it be uploaded on the play store and app store?

Q. What level of User Experience required?

Q. How complex our mobile app features would be?

Q. Which technology to use?

Q. Do we have the best mobile app developer?

Conclusion

Due to the increased usage of mobile phones and the internet in India as well as the whole world, this has become a necessity for every business in order to create an easy connection with clients and providing quality service to them.

In conclusion, we would suggest you go for Cross-Platform Mobile App out of the different types of Mobile Apps as mentioned above. It gives a low cost secure customized app that is easy to maintain and understand.

Thus, if you don't have your mobile app yet, it is the right time to select the best mobile app development company to get it developed.