Chapter 2 GatherinG requirements devices, whereas a native application has the advantage of providing a highly interactive and rich experience, and exploiting the entire native device features such as sensors and camera, etc., and provides high performance over responsive and hybrid applications. Most Valuable Player Responsive Web Native Hybrid Application Application Application • Advantages • Advantages • Advantages 1. Capability to view in 1. Push notification 1. One code base mobile browsers 2. Interaction with 2. Save time and device hardware money • Disadvantages • Disadvantages • Disadvantages 1. Push notification 1. More than one code 1. Performance 2. Interaction with base device hardware 2. Cost more and Increase build effort Figure 2-6. Responsive vs. native vs. hybrid You need to go through the usage of the application because a hybrid application is a web application (shown in Figure 2-7), built using HTML 5 and JavaScript’s wrapped-in native container, which loads most of the information on the page as the user navigates through the application, whereas native applications instead download most of the content when the user first installs the application. 42