I believe that when you are looking for an APP development company, it seems that the quotation of each company is very different. Even if the scale of the APP development company is similar, the price is completely different. What is the reason? Teamotto is here to help you find the answer.
At present, there are many ways to develop APP, but basically divided into 3 camps:
1) Native development
2) Cross-platform development
3) Mixed development
Native development
Native APP development refers to the use of official development tools and programming languages for iOS and Android. iOS uses Objective-C and Swift; Android uses Java. When using native development, the two versions of the APP are developed independently, and there is no place to share. This development method is good for the efficiency and user experience of APP, but the price is the highest. There will be an article dedicated to the benefits of native development.
Cross-platform development
If there are Android and iOS development engineers for native development, cross-platform development requires only one engineer. Cross-platform development means that if an APP uses cross-platform development, it only needs to be developed once, and both iOS and Android versions can be exported at the same time, and some development tools can also export software on H5, PC, and Mac. Currently popular cross-platform development tools include Flutter, Xamarin and React Native.
Mixed development
Hybrid development refers to some functions using native, while some functions use H5, H5 can also be used as a tool for cross-platform development. Hybrid development emerged by balancing the high price of native development and the lack of performance across platforms. Since the APP needs to be manually reviewed when it is put on the shelf, if you use native development, once there is a little modification, you need to re-list the APP, which is a waste of time. If you use hybrid development, you can use H5 with some functions, so that even if the function is modified, it can be modified immediately, and there is no need to re-list.
Various development methods have different prices. The most expensive is native development, followed by mixed development, and the lowest is cross-platform development. So when you choose an APP development company, you also need to ask what development method they use.
