title: Are IOS & Android Apps with Webview Only Considered Hybrid, or Web Apps?
body: <p>My confusion is whether an app created in Java or Swift with just a webview is considered a Hybrid, or Web App. I understand that a Web App use the web almost exclusively, but if it's a webview through a Java Webview is it really considered a Web App or is it a hybrid app because it has the potential to use both native and Web App features? I get mixed definitions about this particular definition. </p>
  
  <p>Google says this about web app:</p>
  
  <p><em>There are essentially two ways to deliver an application on Android: as a client-side application (developed using the Android SDK and installed on user devices in an APK) or as a web application (<strong>developed using web standards and accessed through a web browser—there's nothing to install on user devices</strong>).</em>
  <a href="https://developer.android.com/guide/webapps/index.html">https://developer.android.com/guide/webapps/index.html</a></p>
  
  <p>Apple says this about web apps:</p>
  
  <p><em>A web application is designed to look and behave in a way similar to a native application—for example, it is scaled to fit the entire screen on iOS. <strong>You can tailor your web application for Safari on iOS even further, by making it appear like a native application when the user adds it to the Home screen.</strong> You do this by using settings for iOS that are ignored by other platforms.</em></p>
  
  <p><a href="https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/AppleApplications/Reference/SafariWebContent/ConfiguringWebApplications/ConfiguringWebApplications.html">https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/AppleApplications/Reference/SafariWebContent/ConfiguringWebApplications/ConfiguringWebApplications.html</a></p>
  
  <p>Why is this important to me &amp; why do I bother asking?
  I need to explain to people the differences and importance between these three when talking about future development of a new app I am creating. I am new to the app world and don't quite understand the consensus on this and I want to sound competent when I explain it. I would consider an Java or Swift made App with a Webview just a Web App and not a Hybrid app. But it could become a Hybrid App if more was added. However I can see it being a Hybrid App from the start.  </p>