Cordova PhoneGap or Ionic apps are the wrapper around web technologies and bundled into native UI libraries.Īppium is a “class-platform” test tool that means you can use Appium APIs to write automation for iOS and Android. Hybrid apps are a wrapper around webview, a native control that interacts with webview. Mobile web apps are web apps access by browsers like chrome or safari. Native apps are written using iOS or Android SDK. Appium is an open source automation tool to test native, webview and hybrid application in iOS and Android devices.