November 2017
Intermediate to advanced
378 pages
10h 24m
English
Hybrid apps are part native and part web. HTML, CSS, and JavaScript are used to define the web portion of the app, which is executed via the device's rendering engine, usually Webkit. Mostly, these parts of the app are restricted to UI elements.
The advantage of hybrid apps over mobile web apps is that a hybrid app is still able to make native API calls. Hybrid apps fall on a spectrum between strictly web apps and native apps. They can be nothing more than web apps delivered in a native wrapper. Or they can also include native code in order to take advantage of OS-specific functions.
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