Build mobile applications with quality and within deadlines are often a small challenge due the nature of mobile platforms.
For starters, in order to proper maintain mobile presence on most mobile devices will require two distinct applications, one for android and another for ios.
Back in time, Apache Cordova provided a clever way to package a web application inside a mobile shell.
The modern way to do that is using capacitor.
The key advantage is to use web development skills already available. If your team already does web applications, then it's a matter of extra build steps.
Tooling for capacitor projects is just node, vscode and android studio installed via jetbrains toolbox.
Capacitor also offers great integration with vite and a reasonable good cli tool to perform common chores.
Also, turning existing web applications into mobile ones is a way simple task using capacitor.
On the other hand, capacitor will bring to mobile platform constraints from the web, Javascript being the major one. This isn't a disadvantage due the language itself, but because the nature of web runtime. No real threading, for example.
Most mobile resources will be available through capacitor plugins, But true background tasks will be out of table.
A few other technologies offers single codebase for both mobile platforms.
The PWA is a web specification which aims to make web applications more integrated with the operating system itself. Instead of pen the browser and find a favorite link or type an url, the application will appear as a menu option, like any other regular app.
It also will show off some offline capabilities.
Nativescript Promises native experience while using most familiar web tools. This is not a webview, but a javascript runtime.
It does not uses html tags.
React Native surfs on top of React popularity and uses expo to deliver a true mobile experience.
Finally, flutter is another alternative offering native applications from a single codebase.
The language used in flutter projects is dart.
In most cases, true native mobile apps will offer better end-user experience despite the longer development cycle.
Hybrid alternatives will help a lot with time to market issues.
And convert existing web applications into mobile are the best scenario for capacitor.
Take this into consideration when starting a mobile project.
Happy Hacking!