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by killermonkeys 4784 days ago
I was ready to say that angularjs plus mobile does not work based on our experience but at least your demo works well, though I think it has few bindings. I'll try it later in android browser on froyo and see if it can handle that. We had kinda written off angularjs on mobile but have to say this looks good.
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Thanks! The entire javascript package (r.js + angular + mobile-nav + actual app) is 100K minified and is cached by appcache, so it's pretty darn fast. I've tested on iOS as well and it runs pretty nice, let me know about experiences with Android.
The mobile app I've been working on for a while called Kona (http://kona.com) is an angular.js app. It's on the Google Play store and iOS App Store.
Kona looks great. Our main app (voltageCRM.com) is built in Angular I think we're going to go that route when we go mobile. Any tips/what back end are you running?
We use a true hybrid approach for the mobile app, meaning in addition to using phonegap we also use some native UI elements; namely the top and bottom nav bars. It does add some overhead because you have to write that stuff in java/objective-c but it helps the app feel much closer to a native app than pure HTML5 does at this point. I would check out http://trigger.io if you're not interested in writing any native code and don't have any special requirements for your UI design.

Our backend is a ruby on rails app.

Does not work because of the digest cycle consuming too much CPU for mobile hardware, or some conflict with Froyo, or what? This is kind of an alarming statement.