What is a hybrid app?

In theory, being present in your customers' pockets requires two apps: one for Android, one for iPhone, meaning two teams and two sets of costs that repeat every time anything changes. Hybrid development exists to remove that duplication. One project is written using technologies such as React Native or Flutter, and from it come apps for both platforms, published normally in Google Play and the App Store. Ordinary users notice no difference from a purely native app; your budget, on the other hand, notices a reduction of roughly a third at build time and, more importantly, at every subsequent change, which is done once instead of twice. For most business apps — booking, ordering, catalogues, loyalty — hybrid is simply the rational choice. Native remains justified where the hardware is the product: games, heavy video processing, or fine-grained integration with specialised devices. Everything else is a budget decision dressed up as a technical one.