Can Drupal be used for mobile apps?

Native

Apple (iOS) and Android devices have their own flavour of a mobile app, also known as a native app, which is the best possible way to deliver a great mobile experience making full use of the hardware in someone’s pocket.

However, the time and cost to find dedicated skilled developers and maintain two versions of a mobile app, which is often a simple companion to a website, is often out of the reach of most project budgets.

Hybrid

The solution to the double development time and cost is building the application using the same technologies as the website (HTML5, JavaScript, CSS) and embedding it inside of a web browser wrapped in a native application for Android and iOS.

It’s one set of code and a much simpler development process that can often be implemented by the same team that built the website. There are many toolkits and templates to generate simple applications such as Cordova and ReactNative.

PWA

Progressive Web Applications (PWA) are being pushed as the future direction that mobile apps should be heading in - a fusion of the existing websites responsive theme with additional JavaScript to speed up the reaction of pages for the user and handling times when there’s no Internet connection on the device.

It’s the quickest way to get a mobile app deployed and your icon on a user’s phone screen.