Hybrid applications

A hybrid application is a web application packaged as a native application. The native part of a hybrid application is limited to a few features like a menu or the automatic login, whereas the web main content is displayed in an embedded web browser component. The standardized content of hybrid applications makes it possible to reuse it on a number of platforms. Hybrid applications are distributed through the platforms application stores.

When testing them, hybrid applications should be processed the same way as native applications.

• Tip: Many hybrid applications use a few features relying on the native API, like the login function. Because their content is made of standard HTML and if the URL to access that HTML content is identified, they may be also tested from the desktop, as documented in Record a web application in proxy mode.

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