Saturday, December 12, 2015

Building cool hybrid mobile apps - Lessons from Basecamp

Basecamp has successfully utilized hybrid techniques for building their iOS and Android apps. The following links are worth a perusal to understand the techniques they used.

https://signalvnoise.com/posts/3743-hybrid-sweet-spot-native-navigation-web-content

https://signalvnoise.com/posts/3438-drawing-the-nativeweb-line-in-basecamp-for-iphone

https://signalvnoise.com/posts/3766-hybrid-how-we-took-basecamp-multi-platform-with-a-tiny-team


PhoneGap on its blog has made an interesting distinction between two types of Hybrid applications -

  1. Web Hybrid: This is the default approach that PhoneGap takes. You package your apps as HMTL5/CSS3 and then run the app in a thin native web view container. All the UI controls are HTML or JavaScript controls.
  2. Native Hybrid: In this approach, you build a native app and use native controls for navigation, menus, etc. But most of the content pages are HTML views rendered in a web view. The HTML content can come from the local store or the server. 

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