You should also take a hard look at Xamarin – http://xamarin.com/
-kw
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Subject: {Mobile Portland} What is the current state of cross-platform app development
A little over a year ago, I was looking at different cross-platform mobile technologies. It seemed that the front-runners were Appcelerator's Titanium and PhoneGap. I loved the concept of PhoneGap since I come from a web development background,
but its performance on Android 3.2 was not acceptable. Titanium offers native performance, but I always wondered what the gotcha's would be with Titanium.
Now I am trying to get back into cross-platform mobile development, and I wanted to get some impressions and advice that the good folks of Mobile Portland may have for cross-platform mobile development. I really am only interested in targeting iOS and Android.
I have strong experience with ruby programming so I would also be interested in advice people may have using Ruby Motion or Ruboto, even though these technologies are not cross-platform. Can HTML5 run fast enough on today's phones to provide a good user experience?
Is Titanium still one of the best options for cross-platform mobile development. I'm sure I could drum up a bunch more questions, but all I'm really looking for is general advice you may have for cross-platform mobile development.
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Elia, I'll take another look at Sencha. Some of the things I remember not liking about Sencha a year ago was that it seemed too iOS specific and many Sencha apps felt very awkward on Android. I just took another look at Sencha, and tried out most of their featured app demos. All of the Sencha demos performed poorly on my Nexus 4. I have not seen a demo of a decently performing Sencha application on Android. The only Sencha app that I have seen that works well, by what I have seen on Android, is their Fastbook app http://fb.html5isready.com/ If you know of more example apps, I'd love to see them. I don't know why their Fastbook app performs so much better than all of the other examples I have seen on the Sencha site.
Thank you for the recommendation.
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