Not sure how common it is, but I've worked on a few Cordova apps and have no native experience whatsoever. I have ran into some roadblocks that required steppi

Not sure how common it is, but I've worked on a few Cordova apps and have no native experience whatsoever. I have ran into some roadblocks that required stepping into native development to fix up issues with Cordova Plugins (specifically for background operation), but I suspect that won't be necessary for a large majority of apps out there. Personally, I find the Hosted Web App spec a very promising alternative to Cordova for app development with web technologies. You simply use the open web APIs (notifications, geolocation, camera, etc) for features that would normally require messing with plugins in Cordova, and they would just work. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Marketplace/Options/Hosted_apps https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Marketplace/Options/Host... It's such a shame that the biggest players (Android and iOS) probably have no plans to support it natively since it would greatly reduce developer lock-in. In the meantime, the ManifoldJS project can provide Cordova-based polyfills for your Hosted Web App, but then you'd have to resort to messing with plugins all over again for the only two mobile platforms that really matter... http://manifoldjs.com/ http://manifoldjs.com/