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by codehaha 4578 days ago
"But you should know that the webview used by phonegap is generally one generation older than the current mobile browser provided with the device."

Is that right? Is web browser used by WebView a different thing that a default Android browser?
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tlarkworthy 4577 days ago
I have tried cocoonJS and phonegap side by side with my app and cocoonJS was much faster, however it was buggy so I went for phonegap. I didn't really notice a different speed between chrome and phonegap, but the lack of address bar at the top made the graphics much nicer with phonegap over viewing it in Chrome.

I can tell the browser used by Phonegap is not as good as Chrome. It doesn't popup the keyboard on text fields and things like that, which the Galaxy S2 don't do either.

I am hoping the bugs in Coocoon get fixed as that has the potential to be the best option.

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posabsolute 4577 days ago
It absolutely is in android 4.2. After that it depends on the android version.

My app have perfect smooth transitions in the chrome browser. yet in the phonegap webview animations are slower & I have rendering bugs I never saw in chrome.

Can't find direct sources right now, but it's fixed in android 4.4, you get chrome

http://www.mobilexweb.com/blog/android-4-4-kitkat-browser-ch...

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codehaha 4577 days ago
I'm honoured to get a reply for post's author. Thanks for a link to very good article.
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Sephiroth87 4577 days ago
Not sure about Android, but it definitely is on iOS, since you don't have the NITRO javascript engine...
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