Hybrid mobile apps are like any other apps you'll find on your phone. They install on your device. You can find them in app stores. With them, you can play games, engage your friends through social media, take photos, track your health, and much more.
Nine Solutions provides specialized services for Hybrid application development. Like the websites on the internet, hybrid mobile apps are built with a combination of web technologies like HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. The key difference is that hybrid apps are hosted inside a native application that utilizes a mobile platform's WebView. (You can think of the WebView as a chromeless browser window that's typically configured to run fullscreen.) This enables them to access device capabilities such as the accelerometer, camera, contacts, and more. These are capabilities that are often restricted to access from inside mobile browsers.
What are the motivations to go hybrid?
Hybrid mobile applications provide a way for developers to re-use their existing skills in web development. Developers don't like the prospect of getting locked into proprietary platforms. This includes the programming languages and SDKs provided by platform vendors.
Why Hybrid Apps
Single code base across multiple platforms.
Don't have to update each app in the app store to wait for approvals.
You can use your existing web talent and don't need to bring on additional resources.
Don't need to do any API development since it's all handled via the web.
Building Hybrid Apps With Ionic
Those familiar with web development will find the structure of an Ionic app straightforward. At its core, it’s just a web page running in an native app shell! That means we can use any kind of HTML, CSS, and Javascript we want. The only difference is, instead of creating a website that others will link to, we are building a self-contained application experience.
Why Nine Solutions build Ionic?
Nine Solutions built Ionic because we strongly believed that HTML5 would rule on mobile over time, exactly as it has on the desktop. Once desktop computers became powerful enough and browser technology had advanced enough, almost everyone was spending their computing time in the browser. And developers were overwhelmingly building web applications. With recent advancements in mobile technology, smartphones and tablets are now capable of running many of those same web applications.
With Ionic, we wanted to build an HTML5 mobile development framework that was focused on native or hybrid apps instead of mobile websites, since we felt there were great tools already for mobile website development. So Ionic apps aren’t meant to be run in a mobile browser app like Chrome or Safari, but rather the low-level browser shell like iOS’s UIWebView or Android’s WebView, which are wrapped by tools like Cordova/PhoneGap.
Why Use Ionic
Quickly create a project with starter templates
Boilerplate app structure ready for customization.
