When a business is considering mobile app development, one of the points to think about is whether to develop for iOS or Android. While the former brings the benefit of providing customers with better user experience, the latter has the advantage of being faster to deploy and for keeping the development costs low. The ideal development would be one that blends the benefits of the two dominant platforms to offer shorter development cycles, quicker time to deploy and superior app performance.
Hybrid mobile apps bridge the gap between user experience and ease of development. Additionally, they are built using technology such as JavaScript, HTML5 or CSS, with which most developers are already familiar. These apps come in a shell that can run natively across both device platforms. While several technologies exist for hybrid app development, Facebook supported React Native leads the way in terms of user interface design framework (UI).