What is a Hybrid Application?

1.	What is a Hybrid Application?
Answer» Hybrid Application is ONE that both native and Web Applications. Native Applications are developed for a specific PLATFORM and installed on a computing device. Web Applications are developed for multiple platforms and not installed locally but made available through the internet. Hybrid apps are usually mentioned in the context of mobile computing. Hybrid mobile apps are developed with a combination of web technologies like HTML, CSS, and Javascript. The KEY difference is that hybrid apps are hosted inside a native application that uses mobile platform’s web view. Right now most hybrid mobile applications leverage Apache Cordova, a platform that provides a consistent set of Javascript APIs to ACCESS device CAPABILITIES through plugins which are built with native code.

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