Native App
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Native App is an application written in a specific platform's official language and SDK that runs directly on that operating system. iOS apps are built with Swift or Objective-C and Android apps with Kotlin or Java; they access platform APIs and hardware directly, giving good performance and UI consistency, but must be developed separately for each platform. They sit at the opposite end from web apps and hybrid apps.