Popular Hybrid Mobile App development frameworks
Hybrid Development Technologies
List of best Hybrid App Development Frameworks
1. Ionic
Capable of building native looking apps, Ionic framework has gained popularity in the recent past and results
are overwhelming when worked in combination with AngularJS. Developers have preferred it for cross-
platform app development particularly due to its extensive list of features, predefined elements and of
course, a large community of developers.
Ionic Framework is focused on the frontend user experience, or UI interaction of an app (controls,
interactions, gestures, animations). It’s easy to learn, and integrates nicely with other libraries or
frameworks, such as Angular, or can be used standalone without a frontend framework using a simple script
include.
Currently, Ionic Framework has official integrations with Angular and React, and support for Vue is in
development. Additionally, Ionic Framework is a free and open source project, released under the
permissible MIT license. This means it can be used in personal or commercial projects for free. MIT is the
same license used by such popular projects as jQuery and Ruby on Rails.
2. React Native
Belongs to top list of hybrid frameworks. Introduced by Facebook at the beginning of 2015. React Native
provides the same abilities as the popular PhoneGap/Cordova solution for cross-platform development but
represents a completely different approach. Cross-platform apps (including PhoneGap) use a browser engine
for UI rendering. In fact, you obtain a WEB-page, while React Native uses native rendering and native UI
components.
It enables developers to build cross platform apps with minimal effort that grant a native-like experience to
the end-users. There is a vast community of developers to assist you.
3. Flutter
Flutter is Google’s mobile app SDK, complete with a framework, widgets, and tools, that gives developers an
easy way to build and deploy visually attractive, fast mobile apps on both Android and iOS platforms.
Flutter enables a smooth and easy cross-platform mobile app development. You don’t need to develop an
iOS and Android app separately. All you need is one codebase for both platforms.
More about Flutter
- Is free and open source,
- Is based on Dart – a fast, object-oriented programming language which is easy to learn,
- Provide its own widgets, drawn with its own high-performance rendering engine. They are fast,
- pretty, and customizable,
- Due to its rich widgets, Flutter apps look and feel great (you can create your own custom app design,
- but also use readily available UI elements following specific platforms’ guidelines).
- The architecture of Flutter is based on the very popular reactive programming of today (the same that
- React has been made from)
- It’s becoming a serious competitor to React Native, but also to native app development.
4. Xamarin
Founded in 2011 and owned by Microsoft, Xamarin is one of the hottest tools for building cross-platform
apps. Developers can leverage the same code for different operating systems including Windows, Android,
iOS, MacOS and more. The apps built using this mobile framework offer native experience and are
aesthetically-sound. Its ability to reuse code, tools and functions make the process quick that helps in saving
a significant amount of time.
5. PhoneGap
It enables developers to use the same code for different platforms and use their existing website
development knowledge to quickly build apps that are supported by multiple mobile operating systems.
Knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript is enough to get started with PhoneGap app development.
PhoneGap is a mobile application development framework based on an open source project (Apache
Cordova). PhoneGap is the cloud-based developer tool built on top of the framework, which offers cloud-
based mobile app development without the need for SDKs, compilers and hardware.
Because of PhoneGap’s open web standards developers with existing web skills, frameworks and tools can
easily grasp the tool’s functionality. It also offers cross-platform development with the freedom for
customised development. Because it is a cloud-based service, all apps will be built with the most current SDK
for the targeted platforms. PhoneGap Build supports multiple platforms including Android, iOS, Windows
Phone and webOS with a single codebase.
Key Features
- Create experiences for multiple platforms with a single codebase
- Put your app in the cloud
- Open source software
- Dedicated desktop app
- No SDK maintenance required
- An extensive range of plugins
- Fast development and native APIs
- Cross-platform support
- Connect your devices with the custom mobile app
- Third party tools made by the community
6. Framework 7
It is a full features HTML Framework for designing iOS and Android apps. Framework 7 CLI is an extremely
powerful tool and the most recommended way to start Framework 7 app development. Framework7 paired
with extra tools like Electron and NW.js allows to build native desktop apps. Framework7 comes with a
stunning and unreachable set of ready to use UI elements and widgets like dialogs, popup, action sheet,
popover, list views, tabs, side panels, layout grid, preloaded, form elements, cards etc.
7. Mobile Angular UI
It is an open-source mobile app framework licensed to use it for free under MIT. Developers are required to
make use of the Angular framework in combination with Bootstrap to build amazing mobile app experiences.
However, there is no dependency on jQuery or any other Bootstrap libraries. Plus, there are several UI
components like scrollable areas, navbars, switches, overlays and more that developers can use to build
seamless mobile applications. Users will be treated with a smooth, intuitive and attractive user interface.
8. Onsen UI
It is an open-source hybrid mobile app framework, relatively new, but good enough to compete against the
likes of some well-established names above in this list. It features a large collection of ready to use
components. Developers are enabled to write apps in HTML5 and JavaScript and combine the same with
PhoneGap or Cordova to build a fully-featured app. It is free, easy-to-use, flexible and has semantic markup
components for developers to get the benefits.
9. Corona SDK
Corona SDK is a Cross-Platform Mobile App Development for Enterprises, Education and 2D Games that is 4x
faster. It utilizes Lua as a scripting language in real-time testing. We can create project once and publish it
to multiple types of devices, including Apple iPhone and iPad, Android phones and tablets, Amazon Fire, Mac
Desktop, Windows Desktop, and even connected TVs such as Apple TV, Fire TV, and Android TV.
10. JQuery Mobile
It is an HTML based, touch optimized, JavaScript library used to make responsive websites that are accessible
on all smartphones. It makes use of features of both jQuery and jQueryUI to provide API features for mobile
web applications.
jQuery Mobile framework takes the "write less, do more" mantra to the next level: Instead of writing unique
applications for each mobile device or OS, the jQuery mobile framework allows you to design a single highly-
branded responsive web site or application that will work on all popular smartphone, tablet, and desktop
platforms.
11. Intel XDK
Intel XDK is simplifying workflow and enables developers to easily design, develop and deploy HTML5
websites and applications across multiple websites. Besides HTML5, JS and CSS, Intel XDK can help in
creating, editing and simulating apps from an integrated development environment, export to Adobe
PhoneGap or Cordova CLI for compilation into native code app.
12. Native Scripts
NativeScript is how you build cross-platform, native iOS and Android apps without web views. Use Angular,
typescript modern JavaScript to get truly native UI and performance when you share skills and code with the
web. It gives 100% access to native API’s via JavaScript and reuse of packages from NPM, cocoaPods, and
Gradle.
13. Appcelerator Titanium
It is a platform for developing mobile, tablet and desktop applications using web technologies. It lets you
create iPhone, Android and iPad apps using JavaScript. Titanium Studio, Android XDK, Xcode (Mac) are the
building blogs with JS by its side to create amazing mobile apps with Appcelerator Titanium or Appcelerator
Mobile.
14. Sencha Ext JS
The Sencha Ext JS 6 framework with the Modern toolkit enables you to create great looking web applications
for modern browsers, tablets, and smartphones. With Architect 4.0 and the open source Apache Cordova
tool, it’s easy to create hybrid mobile apps. With the Cordova packager, Ext JS 6 modern apps execute within
wrappers targeted to each platform, and rely on standards-compliant API bindings to access each device’s
capabilities such as sensors, data, network status, etc. Cordova does not provide any UI components or MVC
frameworks, rather it relies on frameworks such as Ext JS 6. Architect, with its drag-and-drop capability and
integration with Sencha Cmd, helps with creating hybrid mobile apps quickly. Architect takes care of all the
repetitive tasks, such as building your app, getting it in the proper place for Cordova, and running the proper
commands to build, emulate, or run your hybrid mobile application.
15. Kendo UI
Kendo UI is an open-source version of Telerik Kendo UI, which is a comprehensive framework for building
modern web and modern apps with HTML5 and JavaScript. It comes with 40+ widgets and framework
features, these widgets can easily be themed and styled via CSS. Kendo UI offers the best UI performance
when developing with popular current technology including jQuery, Angular, React and Vue. Kendo UI is a
proven library that is in widespread use. Our own internal QA process coupled with world-class support
teams and a large user community.
16. Mobincube
This tool is meant for those who do not wish to learn a programming language in order to create a mobile
application. Mobincube allows internet users to create compelling mobile apps for free. With flexibility,
functionality, and customizability – Mobincube helps best mobile applications, compatible with any mobile
and that can be successful across locations.
17. QT
QT is a cross-platform mobile app development framework that can be used to write applications once and
deploy them across desktop, mobile and embedded operating systems. This removed redundancy. QT is
partly C++ and partly native code. QT UI APIs wrap native UI components.
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