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An HTML5 app turned native in 10 minutes with PhoneGap Build?

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Re: An HTML5 app turned native in 10 minutes with PhoneGap Build?

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Addressing the jQM concern, this is why we built Ionic (http://ionicframework.com/). It's still alpha and we have a ways to go, but the UI is more "native" centric and we have been improving animation performance over the last week, and on new iOS devices it's hard to tell the difference between simple native app and the hybrid one. Hopefully you'll find it a better solution for hybrid apps.

Re: An HTML5 app turned native in 10 minutes with PhoneGap Build?

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Totally agree with the author here. Being primarily an Android developer I hate when I need to get access to a Mac to anything iOS related. Phonegap Build solves this problem. I work for avocarrot.com and I managed to do a Phonegap wrapper of our iOS SDK with the build service only using my linux machine.. Pretty awesome!

Re: An HTML5 app turned native in 10 minutes with PhoneGap Build?

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Totally agree with the author here. Being primarily an Android developer I hate when I need to get access to a Mac to anything iOS related. Phonegap Build solves this problem. I work for avocarrot.com and I managed to do a Phonegap wrapper of our iOS SDK with the build service only using my linux machine.. Pretty awesome!

If you want to install the phonegap app on your ios device for tests and later publish to the app store you still need a mac.

Re: An HTML5 app turned native in 10 minutes with PhoneGap Build?

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  But there is reports that Apple will not let you through
  since jQuery mobile animations perform too poorly, oups.
If you read the first answer on the page he links to it sounds like the application was missing a lot of optimisation and was overall executed poorly.

Re: An HTML5 app turned native in 10 minutes with PhoneGap Build?

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Addressing the jQM concern, this is why we built Ionic ( http://ionicframework.com/ ). It's still alpha and we have a ways to go, but the UI is more "native" centric and we have been improving animation performance over the last week, and on new iOS devices it's hard to tell the difference between simple native app and the hybrid one. Hopefully you'll find it a better solution for hybrid apps.

Iconic looks really nice, and I especially like the component documentation.

When it comes to the overwhelming number of mobile js frameworks its hard to get an idea of speed without running each of the demos individually and comparing. Do you have any rough stats compared to Sencha?

Re: An HTML5 app turned native in 10 minutes with PhoneGap Build?

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post #7

Totally agree with the author here. Being primarily an Android developer I hate when I need to get access to a Mac to anything iOS related. Phonegap Build solves this problem. I work for avocarrot.com and I managed to do a Phonegap wrapper of our iOS SDK with the build service only using my linux machine.. Pretty awesome!

If you want to install the phonegap app on your ios device for tests and later publish to the app store you still need a mac.

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