With the ever-growing popularity of smartphones, mobile application (app) development is also thriving. The question is: What is mobile app development? “It is the process of developing mobile applications (apps) for smartphones.” The mobile application development process draws much of its root from traditional software development.
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Types of Mobile Apps
Mobile apps are very much like desktop software, and mobile app developers design them using various programming languages and frameworks. In general, there are three types of mobile apps, which are mentioned below:
1. Native Mobile Apps
Mobile application developers create native mobile apps for specific platforms, including iOS and Android. They use Xcode and Objective-C to produce iOS apps and Eclipse and Java to produce Android apps.
2. HTML5 (HyperText Markup Language 5) Mobile Apps
These mobile apps take a write-once-run-anywhere approach for the building of a mobile app. Mobile app developers create cross-platform compatible apps using the HTML5 framework, requiring only minimal changes.
3. Hybrid Mobile Apps
These mobile apps involve the formation of a container developed in the native system that makes it possible to embed an HTML5 app within it. These are coded with web technologies including HTML5, CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), and JavaScript.
Wrapping up
Mobile app development is the process entailing the development of apps for smartphones. Mobile application developers specialize in developing mobile apps that function very much like desktop software. Lastly, the following are the three most common types of mobile apps:
- Native
- HTML5
- Hybrid
