In web-based applications, a single application is developed in web technologies like HTML and JavaScript and used across multiple mobile platforms. The web-based applications can provide complete software reuse across different mobile platforms as they are platform independent and once developed, they can be used on multiple platforms via the platform browser.

The hybrid application development approach provides full software reuse (which is a problem in native applications) as well as tries to overcome the disadvantages of web-based applications (e-g lack of hardware access and lower performance). As a hybrid application is generally a web-based application wrapped in a native shell, it combines the advantages of both native and web-based applications.

Finally the Model-Driven Software Development approach bases the development on models that are then translated into source code. It enables software reuse as there is a single code base (i-e the model) that can be reused across multiple mobile platforms. Moreover the applications developed using this approach are truly native and are far superior to the web-based approaches.