PhoneGap (also the Apache Cordova project) had some significant limitations last time I looked. It basically compiles down to an HTML5/JS/CSS app with a couple useful JS libraries to do some native interaction and then it runs inside a browser runtime on the device. This makes for a pretty significant sandbox, limiting what you can do, and effects performance as well as making it difficult to look/feel like a native app.
The general impression I got from PhoneGap apps is that it is quick to make a decent app that will work on a variety of platforms and look the same but you'll reach a ceiling of utility and none of the individual apps will ever quite feel like they were made for that platform. One other option to look at for cross-platform mobile dev in Xamarin. It's C#-based and compiles down into native code for each of the platforms. I've known a couple people who rather liked it who also do native mobile app dev. The tooling is much more expensive, though, and it isn't a great option if you don't know C#. Cheers, Judah On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 12:01 AM, Maureen <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thanks. I downloaded it and installed the desktop tool. Looks > interesting. > > On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 5:14 PM, LRS Scout <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > http://phonegap.com/ > > > > Ray Camden seems to be all about it, and Adam Lehman. I haven't had a > > chance to mess with it much but it seems like it's pretty sweet and will > > build to all three. > > > > On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 5:11 PM, Maureen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> > >> We need to write an fairly complex mobile app and deploy it on > >> Android, iOS and Windows Phones. > >> > >> Tool set for development team is being determined. > >> > >> Recommendations? Any one here who has done this and might be > >> available for a couple of hours of consulting on best practices? > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:373055 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
