Hybrid mobile apps

Hybrid mobile apps

Are written in combination of HTML + CSS + JS. 

HTML stands for HyperText Markup Language and is used for the web pages. CSS is Cascading Style Sheets language for defining visual rules on the web page. JS means JavaScript. 

How can be hybrid app run on mobile devices as we know it is the web page? The answer is simple. There is the source code of our app (HTML + CSS + JS) and it is transformed to the package native-like-app. It means, we need transform ("compile") the source code to the destination format needed for the destination platform. For Android it is the .apk file format.

There are two services for that transformation ("compilation"):

• PhoneGap
• Cordova

For the first point of view we can assume they both are the same.