Different types of mobile applications

In the modern realm, mobile applications are also called mobile apps. There are thousands of user-friendly apps on the market for most specific needs, starting from chatting, multi-video conferencing, games, health check-ups, gambling, communities, trading, other financial services, and so on and so forth.

One of the interesting future technologies in the mobile apps space is the development of mobile apps running on iOS and Android devices, where the app can listen for signals from beacons in the physical world and react accordingly, called iBeacon.

The apps are broadly categorized into the following types:

  • Native apps
  • Mobile web apps
  • Hybrid apps

Native apps

Native applications that reside in the mobile operating ...

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