What is a native app?

Native Apps are applications that can work offline on your smartphone and that are developed specifically for a platform. Generally, a software of this nature can take advantage of all the features of a device, among them camera, accelerometer, GPS, compass, contacts list, etc.

There are also the mobile web applications, softwares that are not softwares per se, but websites that behave just like them and that are executed by the browser. And, finally, the mobile hybrids, which are a mixture of the two other types.