If you want to produce apps faster, use a language that helps you develop a hybrid application (there are numerous languages and hybrid technologies).
Or, if you want to use more smartphone features, or want to develop more flexibly, or more optimized apps, use a native language.
In the case of apps that use external resources (database, login to social networks, payment integration, etc.), the ideal would be to use native language.
Main differences
Native Applications:
It is made using the smartphone's native development language, for Android, the native language is Java . You normally start development using the SDK's for Android (and also his own IDE), which will make it easier for you to use native operating system resources, and devices (sensors, GPS, camera, etc.).
Advantages: Ease and flexibility in the optimization of the developed codes, due to the fact of having direct access to libraries of the operating system. Full control over everything that happens in the application. Overall, if well developed, it offers a more pleasant user experience.
Disadvantages: Because you have full control over everything, it means that you necessarily have to develop every aspect, and every feature of the application to achieve your goals, and that means more development time, which means higher development costs. Native Apps projects also require specialist professionals, with very specific knowledge, and this also implies a higher cost.
Hybrid Applications:
Just to be clear, there are the most varied types of hybrid technologies for Android, which work in the most diverse ways, which makes it quite complicated to say how each one works, what are its advantages and disadvantages, so, I will only pass on the general lines on the subject.
Most hybrid technologies use languages and Web technologies in conjunction with wrappers, or use frameworks (some frameworks have their own programming languages that may or may not be compiled for Java).
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Benefits: In the case of versions that use Web technology, they will only require that the developer knows about developing with Web technologies, which makes it a lot easier for the developer, making development faster, and cheaper. Certain frameworks for hybrid apps facilitate integration with native smartphone features.
Disadvantages: In the case of hybrid apps that use Web technology, access to native smartphone features is quite limited. In the case of hybrid technologies that use frameworks, there is no guarantee that the framework will make available all the native features of the smartphone, and in some cases, there will be compatibility issues.
Web Apps
It is literally what it appears to be, they are Web applications, websites, and can be accessed in any browser. Because they are not “real” apps, they will not be stored on the smartphone, and will not use native smartphone features.
Advantages: Made using 100% Web technology. They have a mobile interface. Use server resources. They can be accessed by any browser. It does not need to be published in the app store, so it does not go through any bureaucracy. The overall development and maintenance cost is less. In addition to being accessible on smartphones, it can also be on a Desktop.
Disadvantages: So far, I do not see a significant disadvantage for this modality.
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