Hybrid App

Definitions

1. A mobile application built with web technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) and wrapped in a native container to be distributed through app stores. Frameworks like Ionic and Capacitor enable this approach, trading some performance for code reuse across platforms.

   In plain English: A mobile app that's actually a website in disguise, wrapped in a native shell so it can be installed from the app store — faster to build but sometimes slower to run.

   Example: "We shipped the MVP as a hybrid app to hit both iOS and Android with one codebase, then rewrote the performance-critical parts natively."

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