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PhoneGap [EOL] vs Sencha Complete comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

PhoneGap [EOL]
Average Rating
9.0
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Sencha Complete
Average Rating
10.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
Mobile App Platforms (11th)
 

Featured Reviews

it_user996 - PeerSpot reviewer
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…
it_user1149 - PeerSpot reviewer
Developer at a tech company with 51-200 employees
Best mobile application framework for an enterprise application containing a large number of views with lots of components, but a little sluggish performance on android platforms.
* Scrolling needs some serious tweaking, specifically for android. There is a huge time lag while scrolling through a list. * Lacks full access to native hardware, but if you want access to more hardware then you will have to combine your sencha application with PhoneGap. * No support for blackberry. The sencha sdk beta tools provide support for native packaging for only android and iOS (even their team says they haven't tested much on blackberry). * It's still in its developing phase and may take a while for it to fully mature. * Animations run slower. * No support for windows phone as well.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"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."
"I would highly recommend sencha mobile application frameworks for either cross platform or standalone web apps."
 

Cons

"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."
"Scrolling needs some serious tweaking, specifically for android. There is a huge time lag while scrolling through a list."
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