Android application can be classified as two types
Hybrid applications
Native applications
Hybrid Applications
Hybrid application in android is something which uses the same technologies used in Web application development, but, it’s wrapped in a Native android Activity (web view). Web view is a control in android which is used to display web pages within itself.
Thus Hybrid application is the combination of whole web application within a simple (single) native android’s web view control.
Since modern web sites are using javascript heavily, we need to enable the permission of java script in the code as shown below.
webView.getSettings().setJavaScriptEnabled(true);
Native Applications
Native applications are the most common way of application development
Some of the example applications are the most popular
Facebook
Whatsapp
Google Maps etc
All the application currently you see in your mobile browser installed are Native applications
There are many advantages of Native applications
Android Application Versions
Android Operating systems has different versions starting from Android 1.0 to Android L
Applications developed of android should comply with these version, well, you don’t have to take much effort on this, since the IDE you use for development itself will help you make sure your application is supported for these operating system as shown below
Please find below the video of the above discussion for more detail.
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Thanks,
Karthik KK
