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has always been a Frankenstein mess cough Android gargle Or for that matter, rewriting your app for every phone platform.

• pjmlp 13y ago
  > Or for that matter, rewriting your app for every phone platform. Cordova, Qt/C++, Xamarin Mono, Unity, Cocos-2D-X, Titanium, .... There are lots of alternatives to minimize duplicate native code. Plus it is not as if one doesn't need to write once, debug everywhere with HTML 5.
  • rockdoe 13y ago
    And how much of the apps written with such frameworks will feel remotely like a native app? How much of the frameworks you mention even support a reasonable amount of target platforms? I don't disagree HTML5 has porting problems between devices & browsers. I'm just saying that native apps have more.
    • cableshaft 13y ago
      I can't speak for all of them but I use Xamarin at work, and it absolutely does translate to native look and feel for the app. Although once you get to the GUI layer, it's not much more than a thin C# wrapper for the native OS framework and you have to write a lot of platform specific code. But everything else is cross-platform. And you're coding in C# and not Objective-C (or Java), which is a more predictable and less verbose experience, at least for me, and I've made half a dozen apps using Objective-C.