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Top 5 Interview Questions for Mobile Hybrid Apps Developer

This article represents top 5 most commonly asked interview questions for mobile hybrid apps developers. Please feel free to comment/suggest if you think of another most commonly asked interview questions in relation with hybrid apps development. Also, sorry for the typos.

Top 5 Interview Questions for Mobile App Developers

What are hybrid mobile apps?
Ans: A detailed answer could be found here
How are hybrid apps different from building native apps and mobile websites?
Ans: Detailed answer could be found on this page.
Why build native apps, when hybrid apps development frameworks are there?
Ans: Some of the following could not be achieved effectively using web frameworks:
- Access to platform-specific UI components, like maps, date pickers, switches, and navigation stacks.
- Native mobile gesture recognizers
- Complex and sophisticated threading models that help parallelize work onto multiple threads.
What are some of the disadvantages of building native apps?
Ans:
- Even a small change needs a recompile that slows up the developers. This become a nightmare when the codebase is very large.
- Testing new functionality is cumbersome.
- Calls between native and interpreted environment could end up blocking UI thread.
Give some examples of Hybrid Mobile App Frameworks?
Ans:
- Ionic
- Mobile Angular UI
- Intel XDX
- Appcelerator Titanium
- PhoneGap
- Kendo UI

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I have been recently working in the area of Data analytics including Data Science and Machine Learning / Deep Learning. I am also passionate about different technologies including programming languages such as Java/JEE, Javascript, Python, R, Julia, etc, and technologies such as Blockchain, mobile computing, cloud-native technologies, application security, cloud computing platforms, big data, etc. I would love to connect with you on Linkedin. Check out my latest book titled as First Principles Thinking: Building winning products using first principles thinking.