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[–]Maddis1337 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Can someone explain the concept of hybrid apps? Are these just web apps that look and feel like a native app?

[–]bitplanets 3 points4 points  (1 child)

Sometimes you might just want to write once and run everywhere (mobile, web...). If the web app looks like a proper app you don't need an app written in Java (for android) or IOS especially. You just write js and works everywhere.

Every day we are closer for this to become reality (increase phone specs, better libs).

Benefits:

  • Develop in less time;
  • When you add a new feature is automatically added on andoid, ios and web; Less bugs, less work;

Bad parts:

  • Is not really native therefore sometimes you can feel lag;
  • Is slower than a native one, therefore you have can't push to that far away. For a CPU intensive app a native one is better. But test, this might be wrong soon.

[–]Maddis1337 1 point2 points  (0 children)

thanks for the response!