With the rise of the mobile wave, a variety of apps emerge in an endless stream. The rapid business expansion increases the team’s requirements for development efficiency. Then, major enterprises or businesses are developing APPS. How to develop APP with the advent of the Internet era? First of all, we need to know what kinds of APP development modes are there? \

There are three modes of APP development:

  • The development cost of this kind of APP developed with android iOS technology is generally high, the development cycle is long, and the cost naturally increases. Its advantage lies in the variety and richness of functions that can be realized. The performance of the APP is good, the user experience is very good, the loading speed is fast, the style is diverse, and some functions can be realized without the Internet.
  • 2. Web APP development, which is usually the client side using HTML5, CSS, JavaScript and other technologies to achieve front-end functions, Java, PHP and other languages to achieve server-side functions, generally speaking, it can be simply understood as a page opened in the browser, but can contain a lot of rich applications. GMAIL, for example, can be accessed through a mobile browser. IOS can create access shortcuts on the desktop and open the H5 page through Safari, but the Web App is unable to call the hardware device
  • 3. Hhybrid App, as its name implies, is the combination of native App and Web App. The shell is a native App, but inside it is a web page. It can be understood that there is a hidden browser inside the hybrid App, and the user actually sees the webpage rendered by the hidden browser.

The native shell of a hybrid App is called a “container”, and the browser is hidden inside, usually using system-provided web rendering controls (i.e. WebView controls), or it can have a built-in browser kernel of its own. Structurally, the hybrid App is divided into three layers from top to bottom: the HTML5 web layer, the Web engine layer (essentially an isolated browser instance), and the container layer.

Hybrid apps have the advantages of both native and Web apps, while avoiding some of their disadvantages. Specifically, it can be summarized as three points.

(1) Cross-platform

Web technology is cross-platform, allowing developers to write a page once and support multiple platforms. In other words, hybrid apps require only one team and are cheaper to develop.

(2) Flexibility

The flexibility of hybrid apps makes it easy to integrate multiple functions. On the one hand, the hybrid App can easily load external H5 pages to realize the plug-in structure of App. On the other hand, Web pages can easily invoke external Web services.

(3) Convenient development

Web page debugging and construction, much simpler than native controls save time. Updating pages is also easy, as long as a new version is published on the server, triggering an in-container update. In addition, Web developers are easier to recruit, and traditional front-end programmers can take on development tasks.

In essence, the running time of small program is a virtual machine dealing with Web page rendering and data logic interaction. However, the selection of any technical solution should be based on the use scenario and existing conditions. In this context, the core capability of the product is to invoke system permissions. Therefore, what the simple H5 technology can do is very limited and cannot meet the requirements. It needs to be strengthened by Hybrid technology, such as the technical framework of “Native+ applets”.

The superiority of small programs is reflected in that it not only retains the convenience and flexibility of H5 development, but also can achieve comparable Native experience. With the social network of wechat 1.1 billion users, more and more developers choose the technology of wechat small programs.

When you get such an engine, how do you transform your APP?

In the past, when business departments wanted to release some new functions, users had to take the initiative to update the APP, and any change or upgrade of local functions had to be re-operated in the APP market, which cost a lot. Because not all users update, the IT team has to spend a lot of effort to maintain multiple versions. This approach causes a huge waste of resources and user experience is not convenient.

This problem will be solved easily if we use a small program. Today, I’m going to introduce you to FinClip. Its biggest feature is that it can make any App run small programs. Just introduce its SDK in your App, and you can load and run external applets. In addition to the SDK, it also provides a background management system to manage the shelf and shelf of applets, as well as collect and analyze applets data.

And in order to make it easier for more apps to have “mini program running capability,” Fantai Geek has implemented the mini Program Runtime as a privately-deployable iOS and Android version of the SDK that can be integrated by third parties. In other words, any APP can gain the ability to run applets instantly by embedding fantai applets SDK. FinClip also provides a small program IDE development tool. The interface is similar to wechat small program development tool, with debugging and real preview, easy to use. Within the IDE, you can redevelop existing projects, extend functionality and interfaces, or write a small program from scratch.

As a market-leading enterprise end small program solution provider, Fantai Geek enables enterprises to have their own digital infrastructure and construct their own digital ecology with light application technology in the form of small program. With its differentiated product solutions and leading advantages in the industry, it has enabled banking, securities, insurance, social live broadcasting, IOT and other industries to form distinctive innovative application cases in open banking, digital securities, supervision and compliance technology and other aspects.