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Hybrid apps and web views

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Hybrid apps and web views

- [Instructor] In this video, we're going to start our journey towards automation of hybrid apps by talking a little bit about what hybrid apps and web views are. First, let's go over the three main types of application. A native app is built using the vendor-provided software development kits and APIs. IOS native apps are written in Swift or Objective-C and compiled with Xcode. Android native apps are written in Java or Kotlin and built using Android Studio. Most of the commonly used and built-in mobile apps are native apps. A mobile web app is simply a web app accessed using a mobile browser, written in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. If you visit your favorite apps using the web browser, then you're visiting their mobile web app version. A hybrid app is something in between. A hybrid app looks to the device like a native app from the outside and can contain platform-specific native app components, but it can also contain web…

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