Hybrid apps maybe a rage due to the apparent cost savings
and shorter development times. However, there are businesses and developers who
would still prefer to go on the native way of developing apps.
Here are some of the reasons why developers love building
native apps.
1. Fluid Performance
Hybrid apps are a combination of HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript
on top of native code that drives the hardware of the phone. This has
unintended consequences on the performance and the app suffers when building an
intensive app. On the other hand, the native app’s code is designed to run
smoothly. This reduces any run-time hiccups and reduces development issues.
2. Better User Experience
With hybrid, apps you get a uniform user experience across
platforms. But if you ask any developer, they’ll tell you that they don’t love
the user experience they are delivering with hybrid apps. It is a compromise
they must make. However, native app development comes at no
such cost. Each native platform, whether it is Android or iOS, has its own
design philosophy about its user experience and there are multiple tools around
it that help achieve the best user experience.
3. Execution Speed
Native code is optimised for avoiding memory leaks and
managing low-memory. This, in turn, reduces the execution speed for background
tasks and coroutines. If that was not enough, developers get fine-grained
control over how to manage memory. Hybrid apps generally have the impression of
becoming bloated once they cross a feature-limit. A slow app is not a joyful
experience to use – nor to develop. Not to mention the 2-star ratings on the
app store.
4. Hardware Controls
For native apps, the layer that controls the hardware is
different from the UI control. Most of the hybrid app’s optimization happens on
the UI level, whereas the hardware usually gets the last treatment. For this
reason, if the app is heavily reliant on hardware, then native app is the best
way to go.
5. Effortless Debugging
Okay, that may be a bit of a lie; debugging in never
effortless. But for a Hybrid, developer they have to put trust on the framework
that it doesn’t break. And if something does go haywire with the framework, they
are helpless. On the other hand, the native SDK is highly stable and debugging
is straightforward with multiple options available in order to solve a single
problem.
There are many more reasons why an application developer
would choose native app development over hybrid
app development, but above are the top reasons. Hope you enjoyed this blog and
we’ll bring you more such blogs in the coming days. Stay tuned.
