nice, but where are the docs ?
Framework 7 – Building native iOS apps in HTML5
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Re: Framework 7 – Building native iOS apps in HTML5
#22Congratulation! You have managed to create a web page where even links no longer work. Okay, that is a bit of an overstatement - open in new window, download and probably also the social media links do work.
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#23Yeah, this is shiny and cool. But not native.
True. This is different to how Appcelerator Titanium does it - which does build native apps with native components, despite the code to build the apps being written in JavaScript.
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#24I would say best used as a web app that one can use along side a native app IE Gmail, which has an ok mobile web app and a good native app.
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#25The limit we've run into with iOS is not getting a good looking UI. Rather it's the performance of Javascript in Safari. We have a fairly large one page webapp that looks great on iOS however the performance is an order of magnitude slower on an iPad than Chrome on an old laptop.
Tried React?
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
With Xamarian being acquired by Microsoft, I'm really hoping to NOT have to learn native android / ios / windows phone development. I don't have time for that, and I'm already an expert in C#.
The language isn't the issue, the frameworks and libraries are. You're going to have to spend your valuable expert time sorting those out too. That's the bulk of it. If your truly an expert at c# then learning objective-c isn't much of a challenge. At least learning the amount you need to build apps.
The advantage of using a single language is that, for each single app in all the three store, you have to change a single codebase and not to make 3 different changes in 3 different codebases just because each of them require its own language (and then its own specific libraries).
So you have surely to spend the time to sort the libraries, but it is a one-time problem. After it, you can just use them without problem in all your projects and you really can focus on your idea
Put all the code in a good ui/codebehind separation framework like mvvm, and you are happier than ever.
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#27The limit we've run into with iOS is not getting a good looking UI. Rather it's the performance of Javascript in Safari. We have a fairly large one page webapp that looks great on iOS however the performance is an order of magnitude slower on an iPad than Chrome on an old laptop.
My understanding is that only Safari gets access to Nitro (Nitro : Apple :: V8 : Google). Web Views inside native apps don't get access to Nitro. Even web apps that you save to your home screen don't get access to the faster rendering engine. This is apparently for security reasons. I think it's one of the biggest barriers to web apps being competitive on iOS. (The other is that there really isn't a good installation story.)
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#28Correction, "Native look & feel". But well made!
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#29Nice work.
Suggestion: Add the new iOS7.1 "minimal-ui" key to the viewport tag.
It makes the top bar a lot smaller and makes it fullscreen in landscape mode. Much nicer for an 'app-like' experience.
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#30I'm not knocking this or any particular xxxx-to-mobile platform, but as a native iOS and android developer, I would highly recommend just learning the native languages and frameworks. First, you have the absolute most control you will ever have over your application. This may not be true when a particular tool becomes popular, say at the release of a new tool, but this definitely shows up as time progresses. Who know…
> First, you have the absolute most control you will ever have over your application.
You have 0 control over distribution though, which is pretty important to me.
> There are some amazing libraries for both platforms that you definitely don't want to miss.
I don't doubt that the platforms have good 3rd party support, but it's absolutely dwarfed by that of the web community, and that will only grow larger over time.