Web App Vs Native App: What is the Best Choice?

By educating your customer about the differences between native apps and web apps, you'll make them understand what they really need, saving them time and money.

Native Mobile Apps

           

            Native applications are developed specifically for a particular mobile device and are installed directly on the device itself. Users download the application through app stores like Apple App Store, Google Play Store and more.

Native applications are designed for specific mobile operating systems, such as Apple iOS or Android. An application designed for Apple iOS will not work on the Android or Windows operating system. For example, if you want your application to work on all major mobile operating systems, you must create separate applications for each operating system. It means more money and more effort (time, resources).

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Before deciding to create a native application, you must know the advantages and disadvantages of such an approach.

Pros :

·         They can be used offline, making them faster to open and access at any time.

·         In some cases, performance is faster because they store the information locally and only synchronize with the server when the user has finished using the application.

·         They allow the user to use gestures with the specific hands of the device. Android and iOS are gradually developing different interaction conventions and a native application meets the user's expectations.

·         Native applications get approval from the application store they are intended for, which means that most of the time, the user can be sure that the application has better security.

·         They allow direct access to device hardware that is more difficult or impossible with a mobile application development (camera, accelerometer, etc.)

Cons

·         More expensive to develop, especially when the application must be compatible with multiple mobile operating systems, which increases the development costs.

·         The maintenance cost of the application is higher (especially if this application is compatible with multiple mobile platforms).

·         Obtaining the approved application for different application stores can be time consuming and tedious for the developer

·         The use of the application depends on the user's desire to download it and install it on his mobile device.

Mobile Web Apps

Web applications are essentially Internet applications that can be accessed through the web browser of the mobile device. Users do not need to download and install the application on a mobile device to access it.

The application is written as web pages in HTML and CSS, with interactive parts in Jquery, JavaScript or a similar language. This means that only one web application can be used on most devices that can browse the web, regardless of the operating system used.

Let's see what the advantages and disadvantages of a mobile web application are

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Pros

·         Users can access it instantly via a browser on various devices (iPhone, Android, Windows, etc.).

·         They are much easier to update or maintain by the developer. If you want to change the design or content of a mobile web application, just publish the update to the server and the changes will be visible immediately.

·         They are much easier for users to discover because their pages can be displayed in search results and appear in popular search engines, such as Google or Bing.

·         Visitors to your regular website can be automatically sent to the mobile web app when they are on a handheld device (by detecting devices).

·         As a standard website, mobile web sites / web applications can be developed as database-based web applications that are very similar to native applications.

Cons

·         Mobile web applications have a limited scope to access the functions of mobile devices (hand gestures, sensors, etc., specific to the device).

·         There is so much variation between web browsers, browser versions and phones that it is difficult to develop a stable web application that works on all devices without any problem.

·         They are not listed in the app stores. So, if someone searches for your application in the App Store, you can not find it that way.

·         Since there is no regularized quality control system for web applications, user safety is not always guaranteed.

·         Web applications are not available offline, even in the basic version.

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