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Android
Android is an operating system, for mobile devices, developed by Google. It is the most
commonly used operating system in mobile devices. Google and some other mobile
manufacturing companies use the Android as operating system for their devices. Android
provides an easy to use and friendly environment to their users. The user interface of an
Android mobile is look like this:
iOS Android
iOS (formerly iPhone OS) is also a popular operating system developed by Apple Inc. for
its hand-held devices such as iPhone and iPad. The user interface of the iOS mobile looks
very professional as shown:
Types of Mobile Apps
Apps provide specific functionality to your mobile and tablet devices in a more simple and
user-friendly manner. We use so many apps on our mobile device to perform different iOS
types of tasks. Generally, these apps can be divided into three types which are native,
web and hybrid. Let us learn about these in detail.
Native Apps
Native apps are platform dependent which means that these apps are primarily developed for a
specific platform. For example, any app which is developed for iOS will not run on any other platform
such as Android, and Windows. In other words, you cannot install the app on iOS platform which is
developed for android platform. Most of the apps installed on your mobile device are native apps.
These apps are distinctly accessible from app stores and offer the fastest, most reliable and most
responsive experience to users.
Some of the examples of native apps are Camera,
Microphone, Gallery and Address book. However, there
are some alternatives also available for these apps but using
native apps is easiest.
Web Apps
Web apps are actually web applications which gives an user experience similar to native apps. These
apps are not deployed on the app store. Hence, you need an extra app called browser to access these
apps on your mobile device. You also need an Internet connection to work with Web apps. These
apps are generally developed in HTML and CSS.
Web apps are different from websites. The major difference is
that a web app can be a small part of a website which provides
a particular functionality. On the other hand, a website can
contain many web apps.
Some of the examples of the Web apps are OLX, Flipkart and Pinterest.
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