WHY WE REQUIRE IOT APP DEVELOPMENT ?
IoT apps are important in helping leverage all the potential benefits that IoT solutions offer. IoT apps can be useful to businesses that are looking at cutting-edge analytics, expediting and automating business processes. Also, industrial process control and monitoring of machine health and environmental conditions for deriving business value. The best thing about IoT apps is that they can be used to implement IoT solutions remotely, requiring no physical approach to the IoT device. Hence, IoT apps can help business leaders craft new business models and revenue streams, and also supply them with real-time data to help their businesses grow. IoT App Development can be divided into Native and Hybrid IoT App development.
IoT applications are developed to control IoT devices and can be tailor-made to the most specific requirements of any business, industry, healthcare sector, automotive sector, smart homes, wearable wellness devices, etc. Increasingly, IoT applications are making use of AI and ML to increase the capabilities of devices. Various frameworks are available for building IoT apps, including Ionic, Flutter, and React native app development frameworks.
WHAT IS HYBRID IOT APP DEVELOPMENT?
The reason for the popularity of apps is because of the flexibility they offer developers. For instance, in a hybrid app, developers can write code for a mobile app once and still be able to accommodate multiple platforms in it.
Furthermore, hybrid apps are typically packaged in a native container that makes use of a mobile WebView object. By using the app, we are able to access the web content with the help of web technologies such as CSS, JavaScript, etc.
WHEN IS IT BEST TO GO FOR A HYBRID IOT APP DEVELOPMENT?
For IoT web developers, a hybrid IoT app is the choice to go for in situations when
- The app you are designing is a simple app
- When you have to develop an app for two platforms—iOS and Android—with budgetary constraints
- An app has quick access to two profitable markets, such as iOS and Android.
THE 2 MOST POPULAR APP FRAMEWORKS USED IN HYBRID IOT APP DEVELOPMENT
FLUTTER APP DEVELOPMENT
Flutter is a popular open-source User Interface (UI) Hybrid App development kit created by Google. App developers use it to create apps for various platforms, such as Android, iOS, Linux, Windows, Mac, and more recently, Google Fuchsia and the web.
With Flutter, developers are able to create apps that have quite a high production value. This is because Flutter offers a common codebase for Android and iOS. Besides, it provides the developers with the creative space and capabilities to build amazing UIs with flexible designs, thereby creating a compelling user interface that results in a superb Minimum Value Product (MVP).
The efficacy of the Flutter framework has resulted in big brands such as Alibaba adopting Flutter to create beautiful apps that boost user engagement.
REACT NATIVE APP DEVELOPMENT
React Native is an open-source app development framework developed by Facebook. It is used to create applications for Android, Android TV, iOS, macOS, tvOS, Web, Windows, and other platforms. The aforementioned framework helps developers use the React framework with its native platform functionality. React Native also finds applications in the development of virtual reality apps at Oculus.
React is a JavaScript library for building user interfaces. React Native is a framework based on React JS.
Running the background process on the end device, React Native establishes communication with the native platform through serial data.
The components of the React Framework tend to wrap native code and communicate with native APIs through React’s UI and JavaScript.
React Native is a part of MERN, which is the superset of many app development frameworks. Do you know MERN is an acronym for MongoDB, Express, React, and Node, the four important technologies that constitute this stack?
- MongoDB is a document database.
- Express (.js) is a web framework
- React (.js) is a client-side JavaScript framework
- Node.js is a high-value JavaScript web server framework
Therefore, MERN is a full-stack app development solution that consists of an architecture that enables developers to effortlessly create a 3-level architecture (frontend, backend, database) for app development using only JavaScript and JSON technologies.
REACT.JS FRONT END
The topmost tier of the MERN stack is React.js, the JavaScript framework for building dynamic client-side apps in HTML.
React.js strengths include the ability to handle stateful, data-driven interfaces in a hassle-free manner.
EXPRESS.JS AND NODE.JS SERVER TIER
The tier below React.js front end is Express.js server-side framework. Express.js is a framework for Node.js.
Express.js is a flexible Node.js web application framework with which we have robust server capabilities to create web and mobile applications. Here are some of the key features of the Express framework:
- Enables setting up middleware to
- Response to HTTP requests.
- It helps define a routing table that can be used to complete various tasks on the basis of the HTTP method and URL.
- It helps create dynamic HTML pages on the basis of arguments passed to the web page.
MONGODB DATABASE TIER
Many apps may require storage of data such as user profile data, audio-video content, events, etc. If your app has such requirements, you will need a database that is quite smooth to work with, just like React and Express, for example.
WHAT IS A NATIVE APP?
Native apps are built for smartphones and other devices, and they are designed for a specific platform or operating system, such as iOS or Android.
The 2 most popular app frameworks for native app development are:
- Kotlin
It is a cross-platform app development framework used to develop apps for a variety of platforms, such as Android, JVM, Windows, etc. Kotlin is designed to ensure coding compatibility with Java in Android studios.
- Swift
The above-mentioned Swift is an app development framework used for developing apps on the iOS platform. It comes with modern code properties like type inference and generics. Furthermore, it’s packed with powerful tools to improve app safety and the performance of the system. Swift is compatible with the Cocoa and Cocoa Touch frameworks that are used to develop amazing and powerful UI for iOS apps.
WHEN IS IT BEST TO GO FOR A NATIVE IOT APP DEVELOPMENT?
- When the requirement is for a professional app that meets all the standards of the selected platform for which the app is being built.
- If an app has a complex set of needs with high and wide functionality,
- If the need is for an app that has high speed.
Also, read IoT and Logistics.
Conclusion
Native app development scores over Hybrid app development on the parameters of aesthetics. Whereas Hybrid app development should be your choice if cost is your concern.
PsiBorg provides you with full-stack IoT app development services wherein we use MERN for our IoT app development services. We have in the past helped our customers achieve stupendous results by building IoT apps for IoT wearable devices with added google Home and Alexa skills, home automation systems, Industrial Automation systems, Dashboards for data visualization for Smart Agriculture, and smart home security development.
