Choosing the right technology to build your mobile apps is demanding. A sequence of technology is available to choose from, and various factors determine the platform of choice.
With the hybrid development approach, you can build applications that use both native and web development approach with standards such as HTML5, Javascript and CSS.
There are a lot of frameworks available out there but now we will see the top frameworks for building Hybrid Mobile Apps.
Ionic
Ionic framework is the free, open source mobile UI toolkit for developing high-quality cross-platform hybrid and progressive Web Apps. Helps developers build progressive web and native apps for every major app store, with one codebase.
Ionic uses AngularJs for a lot of core functionality of the framework. Thus using Ionic with AngularJs is one of the best ways to build hybrid mobile apps.
Ionic uses Cordova or PhoneGap to deploy natively or runs in the browser as a progressive web app. It uses over 120 native device features with Cordova/PhoneGap plugins and TypeScript extensions.
React Native
React Native is a Javascript framework which lets you build mobile apps based on React, Facebook’s JavaScript library for building user interfaces.
With React Native Framework, you can render UI for both iOS and Android platforms. Facebook also made React Native open-source, with the idea of compatibility with other platforms like Windows or tvOS in the near future. It allows developing an app that feels native applications without writing a single platform specific code.
React Native lets your app development faster, ability to reuse components. You don’t need to recompile the code instead you can reload the app instantly. Hot reloading refreshes the UI instantly when any changes are made to the file.
PhoneGap
PhoneGap is a distribution of Apache Cordova by Adobe system. If your goal is to build cross-platform apps with HTML, JavaScrip, and CSS then use PhoneGap for everything you need.
It helps to create experiences for multiple platforms with a single codebase. PhoneGap allows access to the robust library of plugins to fully extend the capabilities of your Hybrid Mobile applications.
The apps that developed using PhoneGap easily make use of the elements of native resources of the device without compromising the User Experience. The advantage for developers is that knowing HTML5, JS and CSS is a great benefit, no need to learn additional languages to develop apps.
Xamarin
Xamarin provides developers with tools that can help in building hybrid mobile applications that can perform almost similar to the native application. The application can have all the native features and also share the common codebase at the same time.
Xamarin tools are available to download in visual studio and you can create apps from the visual studio itself. The advantage of developing with Xamarin is that they don’t need to know about Objective-C, Java or Swift to build apps. Knowledge in C# is alone needed as most of the common code is written in C#.
Xamarin component store allows you to add more functionality to your apps by adding simple plugins. It also allows you to integrate easily with most of the popular backends.
Onsen UI
Onsen UI is an open source UI framework and components for HTML5 hybrid mobile applications based on PhoneGap/Cordova. It allows you to create with already known technologies such as Javascript, HTML, and CSS.
Onsen UI provides you with a variety of ready-to-use UI components like tabs, toolbar, forms, sides menu, lists, stack navigation and much more.
Another advantage of using Onsen UI is to build and package your apps without installing or configuring the Android SDK/IOS. Just type some snippets code and let the cloud handle the rest.
Now you know what are the frameworks for building amazing hybrid mobile apps.
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