Hybrid
Mobile applications installed on an Android, iOS, or Windows phone device can be hybrid or native. Although the terms hybrid and native have different meanings in the mobile application sense rather than web applications, the principals are similar. A hybrid application utilizes both web technologies, such as HTML/HTML 5, CSS, and JavaScript, as well as some native platform hardware, such as GPS or Bluetooth. Access to hardware resources is only through the use of plugins provided by the hybrid framework. Think of hybrid apps as web applications packaged up into a wrapper that the native platform can use. This means that a web developer can now code a mobile app without having the learning curve of a new language.
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