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.

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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