What is the Difference Between Web Application and Hybrid Mobile Application
Web App: Web App stored on a remote server and delivered over the internet through a browser. Web apps are not real apps they are really websites that in many ways, look and feel like native applications. They are run by a browser and typically written in HTML5. Users first access them as they would access any web page they navigate to a special URL and then have the option of “installing” them on their home screen by creating a bookmark to that page.
Hybrid App: Hybrid Apps are like native apps, run on the device, and are written with web technologies (HTML5, CSS and JavaScript). Hybrid apps run inside a native container and leverage the device’s browser engine (but not the browser) to render the HTML and process the JavaScript locally. A web-to-native abstraction layer enables access to devise capabilities that are not accessible in Mobile Web applications, such as the accelerometer, camera, and local storage. Often, companies build hybrid apps as wrappers for an existing web page in that way, they hope to get a presence in the app store, without spending significant effort for developing a different app. Hybrid apps are also popular because they allow cross-platform development: that is, the same HTML code components can be reused on different mobile operating systems, reducing significantly the development costs. Tools such as Cordova/PhoneGap and Sencha Touch allow people to design and code across platforms, using the power of HTML
