Question

I’m developing a shopping site‘s mobile client.Its main function is marked on the map merchants, and provides a list display of goods (including commodity picture) provides online ordering capabilities.I chose PhoneGap, do not know the wisdom of this decision?Who can tell me?

Answer 1

Well it is possible to create the type of app you are talking about with phone gap, but you have to look at a few fundamentale pros and cons, and see how they affect you, in order to make a wise choice. Here are a few:

Pros:

• You will be able to almost imidiatly distrebute your app on most major appstores (iOS app store, google play, etc.). So you don’t have to rewrite your app for every OS.
• Phone gap development is much easier than Native development, and doesn’t require half the time / resources / knowledge.
• Many more HTML / JS / CSS developers out there for phone gap. Native developers are rarer and much pricier.

Cons:

• The user expierience achived by phonegap will never much the one achived by a native app. Aspecially in an app like yours which requires a lot of graphice (for the maps). While UX (user experience) and Responsivnes might not seem as important, it is actually one of the most important factors of making a good app.
• With Phonegap, you only get limited access to device capabilities, so advanced fetures the phone has might not be accessible to you. That mioght also limit future development and addition of features to the app.

As a summery, it is possible to make do with phone gap, but i truly recommend to invest the additional time and money to develop a native app, so you will get a PERFECT, responsive app!