Bade your byes to the platform-specific (native) application development where you have to build mobile applications for every platform individually. While it has its benefits, building mobile applications for every platform takes a lot of time and a lot more money. That is not something businesses look forward to as the market requirements change often and at times, erratically.
The last thing businesses want is for them to build a solution when people no longer have the requirement or when the market becomes saturated.
Hybrid app development, on the other hand, requires one application that runs on all the platforms and costs less in comparison. Here are the four leading Hybrid App Development Technologies to look out for in 2020.
React Native
Official Website: http://www.reactnative.com/
Git: https://github.com/facebook/react-native
React Native is an open-source mobile application framework built by the social media giant, Facebook. Ever since its release in 2015, React Native was widely adopted across the world for app development.Component creation and live-reload are some of the prominent features that make React Native preferable among other frameworks. Myntra, Uber Eats, Bloomberg, Airbnb, Discord, and Gyroscope are some of the well-known companies using React Native in their applications.
Ionic Framework
Official Website: https://ionicframework.com/
Git: https://github.com/ionic-team/ionic
Ionic’s rise can be credited to its ability to provide many native features in hybrid mobile app development. It is also built on AngularJS allowing a better and manageable mobile app architecture and design. It also provides the developers with the ability to customize the user interface with the themes and components. Not to mention, companies can switch to Ionic without any difficulties as it is extremely easy to learn and develop.
Onsen UI
Official Website: https://onsen.io/
Git: https://github.com/OnsenUI/OnsenUI
The brainchild of Asial Corporation, Onsen UI is an open-source UI framework for HTML5 hybrid app development. Onsen UI stormed the app development world with its stable release in July 2019 and is much younger compared to its counterparts. So it has just started to gain momentum and a must-watch-out framework for 2020.
Flutter
Official Website: https://flutter.dev/
Git: https://github.com/flutter/flutter
Although not exactly a framework, Flutter is always among the leading technologies if hybrid app development is the motive. Flutter is an open-source software development kit developed by Google with Dart programming language. Of all the benefits, Flutter is especially known for its Hot Reload feature which allows the developers to see the changes made in code without running the code every time. This greatly reduces the programming time. The use of widgets, less coding requirement, access to many native features, and official support are some of the other advantages of Flutter.
Hybrid app development still has a long way to go.
Although it is being adopted at an incredible pace, it still loses to the native app development in terms of features and functionalities offered to be summated to the applications. But for the cost and time hybrid app development reduces for the companies, it is on equal standing with native app development. It actually comes down to the requirements of the companies. And by exploring the advantages and disadvantages of all the hybrid app development technologies, they can easily settle on the ideal framework that will assist the company in the long run.