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Types of IOS Applications

September 28, 2018


 IOS applications can categorize  into three main groups:

    Standard native applications

    Browser-based applications

    Hybrid applications


Standard native applications :

    Traditional standard native applications are the most common of iOS applications, and these are developed in Objective-C or more recently in Swift. Objective-C is an object-orientated programming
language that adds Smalltalk-style messaging to the C programming language, whereas Swift is Apple’s new multi-paradigm programming language that is likely to replace Objective-C in the long term.          
    Objective-C is a strict superset of C, seeing native applications developed in a mixture of Objective-C, C, or even C++ is not uncommon. These applications are compiled to native code and linked against the iOS SDK and Cocoa Touch frameworks.

•https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/mac/documentation/Swift/Conceptual/Swift_Programming_Language/CH3-XID_0
•https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/cocoa/conceptual/ProgrammingWithObjectiveC/Introduction/

Browser-based applications

    Browser-based applications are the “mobile-friendly” clone of a web application. These applications are specifically customized to render in iOS web views and are typically loaded via Mobile Safari. Browser-based applications use traditional web technologies, including HTML, JavaScript, and Cascading Style Sheets.

Hybrid applications

    Hybrid applications are a cross between standard native and browser-based applications. Typically, hybrid applications are deployed with a native wrapper that is used to display one or more browser-based applications through use of a mobile web view. Hybrid applications also include those used as part of a Mobile Enterprise Application Platform deployment

Hybrid applications offer the advantages of both native and browser-based applications; these include the flexibility for real-time updates, because HTML and JavaScript applications are not constrained by code signing, as well as native device functionality such as camera access, through  JavaScript to Objective-C bridge APIs.