Codename One vs PhoneGap [EOL] comparison

Codename One and Adobe are both solutions in the Mobile App Platforms category. Additionally, 100% of Codename One users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Adobe users who would recommend it.

Codename One

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100% willing to recommend

PhoneGap [EOL]

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100% willing to recommend

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Categories and Ranking

Codename One

Average Rating

8.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Mobile App Platforms (7th)

PhoneGap [EOL]

Average Rating

9.0

Number of Reviews

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Featured Reviews

it_user480888

Chicken Little at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees

Uses standard Java, with low rewrite requirement for existing applications.

Uses standard Java, with low rewrite requirement for existing applications I ported a couple of large-ish real world Java applications, and maintained a common code base. Future development continues, fully cross platform, on standard desktop Java, Android and iOS. Core Java features are not…

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it_user996

Anonymous User at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

Product review for PhoneGap

The product makes it easy to start developing cross-platform HTML5-based applications for iPhone, Android and Windows Phone based devices. It leverages developers' existing HTML and javascript skills and uses a familiar paradigm to expose additional functionality (such as camera or location…

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"A few things that stand out to me are a well-documented and pretty extensive API, build server, access to native functionality via native interface, easy extension with third-party libraries, active developer support, and attractive pricing."

"Uses standard Java, with low rewrite requirement for existing applications."

"To the best of my knowledge CN1 is better than some of the available mobile app development frameworks such as Xamarin and Nativescript because it gives almost 100% -- if not 100% -- write once run anywhere."

"For me, PhoneGap happens to be quite useful as I can share my existing code (javascript code) on different platforms, and I therefore do not have to do the same thing on different platforms."

"The product makes it easy to start developing cross-platform HTML5-based applications for iPhone, Android and Windows Phone based devices."

Cons

"Core Java features are not fully supported (introspection, serialization) and many standard functionalities (windows, events) are implemented in an idiosyncratic way, not standard Java."

"Testing through a CLI simulator is free but difficult to setup."

"Windows Phone port. However, that is actively being improved and should be released later this year if all goes well."

"Because it's a generic platform, it doesn't fully leverage all the subtleties of some of the platforms it runs on."

"Performance is not good, especially if the application is loaded with graphics."

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Overview

Codename One is a way of creating native mobile applications for Android, iOS, BlackBerry and Windows Phone, using the same Java source code. Android native apps use Java, but iOS, BlackBerry and Windows Phone do not. Codename One makes translations of your Java code into the native code for each of these platforms, sometimes resulting in faster apps than the native versions. Codename One is open source for both commercial and non-commercial usage.

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PhoneGap is a free and open source framework that allows you to create mobile apps using standardized web APIs for the platforms you care about.

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Pmovil, Chemetall Italia SRL, BOi Global Group

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