What is responsive and adaptive design?

First, let’s understand the difference between responsive and adaptive applications. They are separate dimensions of an application. An app can be either responsive or adaptive, both, or none. In this section, I will give you detailed information about the difference between these two. So, let’s get started.

Responsive design

A responsive app is one whose layout is tuned for multiple screen sizes that the app is targeted for. The layout adapts to the changing screen size no matter what the target device is. This often means that if the user resizes the window or the orientation changes, then we can relay the UI to adapt to the change in the size of the viewport. This is especially necessary for web applications, as they can run on all sorts of devices, each with a screen of a different size and density.

Adaptive design

An adaptive app is one that runs on different types of devices and adapts to the norms of each device...