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I am currently developing a vanilla (no mobile frameworks like sencha) mobile web app I can attest that on IOS you can pretty much get native performance if you

I am currently developing a vanilla (no mobile frameworks like sencha) mobile web app I can attest that on IOS you can pretty much get native performance if you do some trade off and optimize your app rendering. On android that's another game and you can forget about all those cozy animations and only devices with android 4.0+ will perform well, or at all (in my case anyway). Also I'm really not sure why people currently associate html5 apps with bad battery life, personally I did not see any noticeable differences in usage from a native one, hell native use a lot more the gpu so it should be worse.

TeeWEE 14y ago
I have the same experiences. We wrote http://hyves.nl/hybrid http://hyves.nl/hybrid which works wonderfully on iOS. But didnt really deliver the HTML promise on Android. Maybe because of the browser which was not as good as the safari a year ago. And maybe also because of slower phones. However the same code did run on iOS blackberry and Android. However the experience was sub-native on most devices. And we really needed to do a lot of tweaking and work to get the native look and feel on iOS. So if you want to be the best, no matter the costs, go native. Otherwise Sencha is not a bad choice to make. It really depends on your requirements.
cheeaun 14y ago
Is that app on github or something? Would love to try it.