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by flyosity
5391 days ago
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Have you used Sencha Touch or the other mobile app frameworks? They're good but not great. There's still a real difference in the user experience between them and building a real, native app. It's fairly obvious due to clunky scrolling and choppier animations throughout the app. |
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I am planning on having a Web-app component to my next product, actually, and have been reading about them all; Dojo and jQuery Mobile are the two finalists I'm considering.
But the primary app is a game, and the production values for games make doing them entirely as web apps not an option.
Clunky scrolling would be a problem, sure, as well as choppy animations. I'll have to see what can be done when I actually dive in to writing the HTML5/CSS components.
The thing is, it's certainly POSSIBLE for web apps to animate better than they do. It may not be time for web apps to take over on phones, but it's only a matter of time. Processors in phones are getting more powerful, and the WebKit-based browsers are being optimized; scrolling animations really shouldn't be significantly slower done in JavaScript than they are in, e.g., Java on Android.