Drifty, Makers of the Ionic Mobile Framework, Raise $1M • Hacker News Board

Re: Drifty, Makers of the Ionic Mobile Framework, Raise $1M

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Post by vladgur » Mon, Mar 10, 2014, 6:32 PM UTC

yesimahuman wrote: post #15

reedlaw wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Could you elaborate? It would seem performance issues would be tied to whatever Angular code is being written. Or are there UI issues?

Initially, we focused on iOS only just to get the alpha out in November. Turns out demand for Android was huge, but we were doing things that worked well on iOS (like box-shadow) and certain animations, but hurt Android performance on sub 4.4 devices. We've since built a system to gracefully fall back to less intensive operations on older Androids, and we have made a good amount of progress on Android performance ove…

Define older -- 4.1.x and later represent more than 50% of devices out there:

http://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/index.html

I agree with you on box-shadows -- its a big no-no in the android-land. There are some things however android chrome does better than mobile safari, batching browser repaints for instance. If you focus on CSS-driven animations/interactions for your ui, you should be able to reduce the performance issues on android though.

Re: Drifty, Makers of the Ionic Mobile Framework, Raise $1M

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Post by hcentelles » Mon, Mar 10, 2014, 7:06 PM UTC

Congrats to drifty/ionic team, what you have achieved so far is great, your angular symbiosis is remarkable. I'm developing my startup mobile app with ionic despite its alpha tag. I have a question, maybe I must ask on your forum but I'm here right now. Do you have plans to implement some UI components truly native? through cordova/phonegap plugins. I think that you are in good position to implement that, even using angular directives as you do now. That will be great.

Re: Drifty, Makers of the Ionic Mobile Framework, Raise $1M

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Post by horyd » Mon, Mar 10, 2014, 10:21 PM UTC

Fantastic news, we are developing our startup's apps on the Ionic framework and it's been great so far. Every now and then I get around to putting some Ionic specific tips up on Coderwall if anyone is interested.

Here's a horizontal slider directive I implemented the other day. Am very keen to see what new animations come out of Drifty soon :)

https://coderwall.com/p/gzzoxa

Re: Drifty, Makers of the Ionic Mobile Framework, Raise $1M

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Post by nicklovescode » Mon, Mar 10, 2014, 11:27 PM UTC

kgc wrote: post #11

I tried to use this for a recent project but struggled with performance issues on Android. Not recommended at this time for production.

I used it in production for an application that is in the App Store right now(ChefSteps). It was a pleasure. It doesn't quite feel completely native yet, but it's close.