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by marknutter 4473 days ago
I have. I built an HTML5 hybrid mobile app for Android and iOS. It was about 90% JS/HTML/CSS and 10% native code. Worked very well for our purposes. You can judge for yourself, it's called Kona and in both major app stores.
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tluyben2 4473 days ago
Eh yeah. Exactly what I said then reading the Android reviews then? Works on some devices, terrible on most; getting that JS/HTML/CSS to work well on 'most Android devices' is infinitely more difficult than doing it native. Is that worth it? I still want to bet I could've written both apps native in a shorter time with much better results. You can take me up on that any time.
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auvrw 4472 days ago
> 90% JS/HTML/CSS and 10% native code.

this was going to be my comment on the original comment: it's not like you have to do only HTML5 or only native, or so i'm given to understand... i'd be interested to hear more about the hybrid approach if anyone has links/blog posts.

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tluyben2 4472 days ago
10/90 is Phonegap/Cordova; when hybrid is viable (imho) is when you need to show complex documents; what HTML was made for. So the parts in your native app where you need to show documents with nice flowing text, images, charts, etc HTML is a good option, but then the 10/90 is usually not native/html, but the other way around.
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