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by camus2 4594 days ago
> Sorry, are you saying that it's the effort for you to build...

native development takes advantage of sdks you wont find on your html plateform ( which is really an hybrid app, since you depend on phonegap container,so it's still native somehow, you just abstracted it away ,so it's not an html app ). so you are just building a packaged website.

> I just spent six months building a quite complex single page web app

define complex.

> while I can easily imagine a single person building a web app that could run well in PhoneGap

Except your app wont have a native feel , wont follow the plateform guidelines regarding ux since you are not using native widgets and will feel like a second rate ux on the plateform yo u are developing on.

Let's not even talk about performances. Is Your app multithreaded ? can it run on the background and to some stuffs while the user is on another one ? can it display anything on the user homescreen ? see , unless you go native , your capabilities are limited to the least common denominator instead of embracing the platerform , maybe that's why you spent 6 month on building it.

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Of course since phonegap is just an hybrid app container. Someone had to write that java and objective-c code for you.
Why must it have been "someone" else who wrote it for me? I wrote it.