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Some o  the e amples o  the  e  apps are OLX, Flipkart and Pinterest.








                 Hybrid Apps

                 The app that is created  y com ining the  eatures o  nati e app and  e  app is called a hy rid app.
                 Similar to nati e app  hy rid app is de eloped  or a specific plat orm and deployed on the app store.
                  ou need to install the hy rid app  e ore using it on your mo ile.  y rid app can  e created  y
                 using many hard are  eatures o  your de ice such as camera and de eloped  y using  T   and  SS
                 similar to  e  app.
                  o adays  de elopers use de elopment tools to pac age the code o  the hy rid app  ith a  ro ser to
                 ma e it as a nati e app.  n this  ay  hy rid apps  ecome cross plat orm  hich means that the same
                 code can  e run on multiple plat orms. This techni ue sa es the de elopment time and cost also.

                 Some o  the e amples o  the hy rid apps are Instagram, Gmail  and X   ormerly  no n as T itter .








                                                                                      Critical Thinking
                       Quest                                                          Information Literacy


                       ircle the nati e apps icon and underline the  e  apps icon.












                 Categories of Apps

                 Apps ha e  ecome an integral part o  our li e.  o adays  people are using mo iles  or many purposes
                 such as communicating  learning  teaching and playing games. This leads to the de elopment o
                 se eral types o  apps. As you  no   Apple s App Store and  oogle s  lay Store are the t o most
                 popular app stores. These stores contain different types o  apps  hich are  urther categorised in
                  arious categories.

                 Gaming Apps

                 Today s most popular category o  mo ile apps is gaming apps  hich shared more than 24% area o
                 the app store.  aming apps allo s us to impro e our cogniti e s ills such as attention and  ocus.
                 Some o  the gaming apps allo s children to learn  hile playing. These apps also allo s us to play
                 games  ith other  riends and share scores on social media.


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