Gaurav Chandra
Jul 20, 2017 · 1 min read

I am a mobile app developer and I have not created any native app till now. If I do get a query to create something like a music player, which should work in the background, I refer them to someone else. I have been creating hybrid apps since ionic v1 and to be honest 99.9% of the queries I get don’t need a native app because the app always rely on the internet and a db server. Also, many people want the app to be an extension of their business like instacart or laundry business.

Hybrid has come a long way and ionic v2 is superb. Also, the android web view and phone hardware has matured quite good. Now you can get a phone with 4 GB RAM, 64 GB space and a good processor in USD250 easily which has Android 6+ support. This is huge for hybrid apps.

On android <4.4 the hybrid apps were performing poorly because of the web view. Now days it is not the case and iOS was always good as far as web view goes (I mean the animations etc and not the modern features).

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