Top 5 Interview Questions for Mobile Hybrid Apps Developers

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