1. Types of applications

2. Everything goes mobile
Everything needs to be „mobile” because of the way we live today
Whatever software you run on your mobile device is a mobile application
Even Nokia’s Snake was a mobile application :)
…and so are, at least „sort of” nowadays websites

3. Do we really use it that much?
Statistics are clear
About 90% of time while using mobile devices is spent in various Apps (smartinsights.com, April 2016)
Source:

4. What does one need to create a mobile application?
Skills
Time
Money

5. There are choices that have to be made
Because of limited resources, different motivators and expectations, companies as well as individual developers need to think before they start working on the mobile application

6. Let’s start from the easiest solution

7. Web-based apps
These are essentially the simplest and fastest to develop apps
Their architecture relies fully on mobile devices’ web browsers
One size fits all is somewhat true
Developed mainly using HTML5 and JavaScript

8. Through the hardest/most complex

9. Native apps Most time/resources consuming to create and maintain
You can target only one „environment” at a time – for example iOS or Android
It pays back though – you can have access to all functions of the device
Programming Languages used most commonly are Objective-C, Swift (iOS) or JAVA (Android)

10. To something in-between!

11. Hybrid apps These apps take best from both worlds
Develop once, use on multiple devices!
Native container runs web technologies
Usually HTML5 + JavaScript + native builds

12. Differences?

13. Obviously, there are quite a few!
Aspect
Web apps
Native apps
Hybrid apps
Skills
Low
High
Medium
Distribution
Web
App Store/Market
App Store/Market *
Development speed
Development cost
High *
Maintenance cost
App performance
Access to resources
Low/Medium
Medium/High
source: mrc-productivity.com

14. Another look at the differences
source: developer.salesforce.com

15. Questions?