Native Mobile Platforms vs Phonegap – A Comparison
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This document compares native mobile applications and PhoneGap-based hybrid applications, highlighting their respective advantages and disadvantages. Native apps benefit from better performance and user experience but require separate development for each platform, while PhoneGap enables cross-platform development with lower costs but has limitations in performance and graphic capabilities. Ultimately, it aims to help businesses weigh the pros and cons of both approaches before deciding on a development method.
Native Mobile Platforms vs Phonegap – A Comparison
- 1. Native Mobile Platforms VS PhoneGap – A Comparison
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- 3. Why the comparison? Before you decide on whether you should choose to build a Hybrid PhoneGap- based App or a native mobile App on platforms like Android, iOS, Windows Phone, etc , let us put forth the pros and cons of both and make it easier for you to weigh them on equal footing.
- 4. Native Applications – The Pros • The capabilities of any native application are directly based upon the device OS as they are developed using the APIs provided by the device OS itself. • These applications can seamlessly use all possible features of the device. • Programmers can easily control the level of user experience without compromising on any other principal aspects of the application such as performance, battery drain, etc. • It is also easy to do code enhancements for these applications.
- 5. Native Applications – The Cons • Native applications can be programmed only with the specific application development language, such as objective-C for iOS and Java for Android, that the device OS APIs support. • The native application for each OS should be developed separately by high- skilled programmers who are specialized in the respective application development languages. • Along with investment on high-skilled programmers, programming native applications for iOS also requires an additional investment on development- infrastructure, because native applications for iOS can be developed only using Mac machines.
- 6. Why Phonegap? • PhoneGap is a free and Open Source framework. • It enables building hybrid applications which work on most of the renowned mobile platforms such as Android, iOS, Blackberry, and Windows Phone. • PhoneGap framework is used by several mobile application platforms such as ViziApps, Worklight, Convertigo and appMobi as the backbone of their mobile client development engine. • Hybrid applications are those which partially behave like native applications and partially like web-based applications. • PhoneGap framework provides a container that abridges the native APIs to the web view.
- 7. Phonegap – The Pros • Web-based mobile applications that have minimal dependencies on the native device capabilities could be developed using PhoneGap framework. • Since development using PhoneGap framework could be done using common web technologies such as HTML, CSS and JavaScript, and the same application can work cross-platform, the application development cost for multiple mobile OSs is very less compared to the application development in the native way.
- 8. Phonegap – The Cons Although PhoneGap framework seems to provide great advantages on cost, time and effort, with the current generation of release, it has some concerns that need to be addressed. • The container layer does not provide sufficient options for developers to measure and optimize the application performance. • PhoneGap framework is not optimized to build graphic intensive user interface. • Compared to iOS and Android, PhoneGap lacks strong document support for programmers.
- 9. Relevant Links • Explore about our mobile offerings here. • Here is an overview about Phonegap. • Read about our PhoneGap capabilities here and here. • Here you will find out the challenges faced by us on our Phonegap projects and how we overcame them. • Find out how we integrated SQLCipher with existing SQLite Plugin in Phonegap here. • Find out how we made hybrid apps look and behave like native apps here. • How to get started with AngularJS on Phonegap? Find out here.
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Editor's Notes
- #3: Definition of terms1. Revenue refers to total revenue Jan-Dec2. Gross margin as defined in key metric template3. Net new business refers to ‘New new business’ i.e. non organic growth. It should not include growth from existing clients.