The Comparison of Native and Hybrid Mobile Applications for Android System

A. Kaczmarczyk, W. Zabierowski (Lodz Univ. of Techn., Poland)

In the age of smartphones and tablets popularity of mobile applications is rising extremely quickly. There are countless purposes of using them – communication, social media, news, sending emails, shopping, paying, watching videos and streams, playing games. Google’s Android is currently the most used mobile system in the world. The main aim of this article is to compare native and hybrid mobile applications created for this system. The comparison was based on mobile applications implemented in Java 8 language and Ionic framework.