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I'm writing mobile apps using angular / Cordova and ionic. When they are running on a device I can't tell the difference between a native app and a JS Cordova o

• mikeryan 11y ago
  On what device? I've seen cordova apps work flawlessly on some and obviously be webview apps on others.
• aikah 11y ago
  > I can't tell the difference between a native app and a JS Cordova one Sure, what kind of app are you writing ? games ? a video player ? a messaging app like Telegram ? a background activity on Android ? of course if it's a basic CRUD app, you're not going to notice the difference. try to make a 2D or 3D game with Cordova and see how it runs. The question you should ask yourself is, do you need a webpage in a native-shell at first place when you could just develop a website.
• Bahamut 11y ago
  I can tell you from experience that making a robust Ionic 1 app with Cordova that is performant is difficult. Cordova is not good at all. We did not have chump change for developers either - I've numerous contributions to Angular and Ionic, and one of my former co-workers when I was there is now on the Angular team. React Native is a superior abstraction, since it allows you to hook directly into native components very easily (try writing custom Cordova plugins), and keeps high level logic in JS.
• alien3d 11y ago
  There is a big different. File size especially.Limitation payPal API and the most buggy me was XCODE upon compiling to apple apps.