There are three general categories of mobile applications that you may need to test today :
* Native Applications.
* Web Applications.
* Hybrid Applications.
Native Applications : Native Apps are designed specifically for a particular mobile platform (today this typically means either Android or iOS) and are generally downloaded and installed via an app store like Apple’s App Store or Google’s Play Store. This includes both pure native apps built on Java/Kotlin for Android or Objective-C/Swift for iOS, as well as cross-platform native applications built with frameworks like ReactNative, Flutter and NativeScript.
Web Applications : Web Apps are designed to be accessed on a mobile browser. Web apps can be either a responsive version of a website or a progressive web app (PWA), which adds additional mobile-friendly features.
Hybrid Applications : Hybrid Apps are designed as a compromise between native and web apps. Hybrid apps can be installed via app stores just like native apps and may have some native functionality, but at least partially rely on operating essentially as web apps wrapped in a native shell.
