The answer as they say, depends. Depends on what your App needs to do, and also what your constraints are (usually budget constraints). Here are the factors that you will need to weigh to make that decision.

It’s not just about access to core device capabilities though, native apps, when well designed, respect the design patterns and standards of each platform. It goes beyond a left-aligned header on Android vs a centre-aligned header on iOS, there’s hundreds of small differences in the design of user interactions on each platform. Taking them all into account means designing apps that are intuitive to use and play well with the rest of that platform’s ecosystem. Overall, going for native apps helps you create apps that are designed to delight your users.

What are Hybrid Apps?

Somewhere between native and web apps you’ll find hybrid apps. They are usually quicker to build (and thus cheaper) than native apps, but a step-up from what you can expect out of browser-based web apps.

Since customer experience is more important than any other thing and customers use their mobile phones the most among other devices in a day, Native Apps seem to win the debate in competition with Hybrid Apps. Before deciding on Hybrid Apps, go through a basic difference between these two: