Info AccountMobile applications are therefore crucial for organizations that want to interact and/or support customers. An important decision that has to be made when creating a mobile application is whether to design a native or a hybrid app.
Consequently, this particular decision influences not only the output of the application and its usability but the cost of production as well.
In Dubai, a city that is home to some of the biggest technological companies developing mobile applications, the cost can be more or less. This blog post compares the costs between native and hybrid apps, so that you can make the correct decision for your company.
What Is a Native App?
A native app is designed to be operational in a single operating system, either iOS or the Android platform using native languages like Swift for iOS or Kotlin for Android.
Advantages of Native Apps:
Performance: Native apps are also the best as they function well since they are developed on the platform they are created for.
User Experience (UX): They provide a clean and natural experience that adheres to the guidelines of the platform they belong in.
Access to Device Features: Native apps are fully capable of using all the abilities of the device like cam, GPS, and notification-tooltip.
Disadvantages of Native Apps:
Higher Costs: Creating different applications for IOS and Android versions is quintupling the work load and, therefore, expensive.
Longer Development Time: Because each is built in isolation, timing may be longer.
What Is a Hybrid App?
Hybrid apps are made using web technologies, HTML, CSS and JavaScript but are so enclosed in a native host. This enables the application to be developed for a number of platforms, and with the use of one major set of code.
Advantages of Hybrid Apps:
Cost-Effective: Hybrid applications are less costly as compared to the native applications because they share the same code.
Faster Development: It makes sense to develop one codebase to use it everywhere since the process is faster than writing two different ones for iOS and Android.
Easier Maintenance: Having a single code base to work with has implications, such as faster change and lower expenses.
Disadvantages of Hybrid Apps:
Performance Limitations: Hybrid apps work through the use of web views and this makes can be somewhat slower than the native apps.
Limited Access to Native Features: While hybrid apps offer the best of both worlds, users cannot always get the full benefit of the hardware and software of the device.
User Experience Compromises: It may not be as polished or optimized for each platform as a native app is because, with hybrid apps, the developers don’t follow the guidelines for each platform to the letter.
Cost Comparison: Native or Hybrid App Development
The difference in cost of native and hybrid applications mainly depends upon the number of operating systems to be supported and the level of additional capabilities required.
Native App Development Costs:
Enticing local mobile app production in Dubai site costs approximately between $20000-$150000 per platform; iOS and Android. Creating products for both platforms add some notable cost to the developer.
Hybrid App Development Costs:
Hybrid app development is always cheaper as compared to native app development, and the cost can go as low as $5000 or as high as $30000. Indeed, when you are designing an app that will work efficiently on both operating systems, you will need to spend less time and money.
A Brief Analysis on Factors Affecting Co-development Costs
App Complexity
Simple Apps: Vital and inherent capability that cost between $5 000 and $12 000.
Moderate Apps: Applications with functionalities such as in-app purchases, API integration which cost $12,000 to $25,000.
Complex Apps: At the next level, the additional functions like so-called real-time data cost more than $25000.
Design and UX
Like with most applications, native apps often have different interfaces for each native platform, which can be expensive. Applications that are built as hybrid apps, can reuse same codes across both platforms though.
Post-Launch Maintenance
Hybrid apps require maintenance like native, only native apps can be costly, as different codes have to be written for each platform.
Developer Expertise
Mobile app developers in Dubai rates range from $50 to $150 an hour depending on the expertise and the type of project.
What Is Best for You?
Choose Native Development If:
You have a complicated app that is going to require a lot of features or integrate with the phone’s hardware.
You always want to top the statistics of active users whether they are using iOS or Android.
Choose Hybrid Development If:
You need a way to get your content to the public at minimum cost and on both platforms at that.
The app you are creating is not complex and does not entitle the application to run deep into the device’s hardware.
Conclusion
So, when to choose native and when – hybrid, that depends on the extent of your app, your pocket, and end-users.
While being installed for use directly on the device native application provide superior performance than web application as well as enhanced usability but cost sigificantly more.
The drawback though is that while hybrid apps cost less and take less time to build, they are not as performant as native apps, or as capable of accessing device features.
Outsourcing therefore needs to be done while paying attention to the kind of mobile app development approach that will best suit the intended app given the business goals and the amount of expenses plan for.
No matter which approach you select, it is always beneficial to have native or hybrid development team, which are ready to be your 75way Technologies. Give us a call today and let us help you create your new mobile app!
