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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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