The one think I'm thankful for is that the OP did a thorough investigation into PhoneGap. I've tried 5 cross platform build systems for iOS/Android (PhoneGap,

The one think I'm thankful for is that the OP did a thorough investigation into PhoneGap. I've tried 5 cross platform build systems for iOS/Android (PhoneGap, Appcelerator, Adobe Air, Corona, and just rolling my own Web based app using Sencha Touch). I gave up trying to build anything other than native in ObjC/Swift and it seems like even 6 years later, the same problems are still prevalent.