What are Native apps ?
Native apps are the apps which are confined to a particular hardware and have more access to hardware components than Hybrid apps. These apps also Provide great user experience. You need to write different set of code for different platforms for performing the same task. For example a recipe app will have 3 different set of codes for three platforms Android, iOs, and windows respectivley. This is the major drawback of native apps.
What are hybrid apps ?
Hybrid apps are based on "write once deploy everywhere ". That means write your code once and deploy on any of platform without changing the code. This is possible because we write code in web languages like HTML,CSS, and JavaScript. This make the app under stable to every OS which can process a web document. With only HTML,CSS,JavaScript our app will more look like a webpage instead of an app. To give our app flexibility we need to install some plugins which will give our app access to system hardware like camera,sensors,contacts etc. And our app will look and feel like an Native app so this will save time and cost of building. Some popular plugins are Cordova, ionic,Appresser etc
Which one to choose ?
It all depends on your need. Whether you are building a hard ware specific app like camera app, file transfer app in these cases you are more focused on hardware so one should go for native. On the other hand if your app is a e-commerce app or a news app which rely less on hardware can be build with hybrid technology. So at last it all depends on your need.
