How to Expand Native App to Web app
Everything in this world, or even in the universe need to change as per the changing trends. This is what becomes evolution. Evolution, which is a vital and integral part of our lives makes us withstand the various changes occurring every day.
The adaptations to the changes trends can be applied even to the native apps. These apps are specifically written for a particular platform, example, Pokémon GO and Twitter.
Latest times are witnessing advancements like the conversion of native apps to web apps like Instagram and Uber, understanding the need to change for surviving in this competitive IT field. This expansion of native apps to web apps is proving successful. So, if you also wants to expand your native app to web app, following write up will help you
Importance of conversion of Native app to web app
Let’s dive into the following write up to know the various reasons for expanding the native app to web app
1. Native app have saturated: Various mobile native apps have reached there saturation in terms of their downloads for example Instagram on June 2018 have crossed about 1 billion active users. In such a scenario web applications are the only remedy to overcome this problem. However the web app launched by Instagram was a basic one and its main moto was to target the users who cannot download the native app due to slow network.
2.For better web experience: The user experience with native apps and web apps are entirely different for example, web apps have additional features like enhanced screen space, virtual elements etc. As per the need apps can be modified or removed.
3.Designing: With regard to designing there are both similarities and differences between native and web apps. Considering the differences there is a large scope for experimenting as the screen space is more.
4.Clicking vs tapping: native and Web apps differ in this context as native apps need to be tapped for performing different gestures whereas web apps need to click through the mouse.
5.User Experience: User will have different experience with native and web apps. For instance native apps will provide the user navigation, entertainment, music and such whereas web apps are purely utility based and they mainly focus on completion of particular task.
Things to take care while developing a web application
Following things need to be taken care for developing a web application
1.Authentication: A strong and secure authentication blue print is necessary for web app security. Weak authentication may cause security threats.
2.Authorization: It functions for evaluating the task of authenticated identity also it helps in identifying accessible resources. To ensure web app security effective and robust authorization is inevitable.
3.Caching: Caching is used for optimization of reference data lookups and for avoiding duplicate processing and network round trips.
4.Efficient management: One need to have an efficient management strategy in order to ensure security. It helps in prevention of revelation of confidential exception details properly.
5.Instrumentation and Logging: This helps in identifying any suspicious activity which may harm the system.
6.Navigation: The developer needs to take care to ensure easy navigation within the app so that it will avoid complexity and makes it simple and easy usage of the app.
7.Page Layout: it should not involve much codding or development focused tools. It should be designed in such a way that it can be detached from UI components or processing.
8.Session management: various factors need to be considered in session management like what to store, where to store and how long to be stored. This makes the web app more reliable and delivers better performance.
9.Validation: Validation of solutions is important for avoiding cross side scripting, SQL injection attacks and buffer overflows.
Web app security and backend architecture
There can be various backend architecture challenges for developing web apps. If it is developed from native app it will have its influence on the web app. In such case there would be scaling in services as they have to accommodate the new needs like encryption and security and storage of new records. Using various protocols the security of the transactions are made strong, also if the user want to subscribe or buy anything by other app then payment services would be charged. Do not overlook the testing process else you may face problems due to lack of resources
Conclusion:
As you have seen above, Native app development from web app development is not that easy. It involves various challenges like considering different use cases, important aspects like web app designing, considering various specific requirements, backend and security issues.
If you are looking for grow your business by expanding native app to web app, reach us at FuGenX Technologies, a leading mobile app development companies in Delhi.
