NativeScript vs Trigger.io: What are the differences?
What is NativeScript? Build truly native apps with JavaScript. NativeScript enables developers to build native apps for iOS, Android and Windows Universal while sharing the application code across the platforms. When building the application UI, developers use our libraries, which abstract the differences between the native platforms.
What is Trigger.io? The simplest way to build amazing mobile apps using the best of HTML5 and native. You write your HTML5 code using the Forge JavaScript API which gives you access to native features such as the camera and contacts API.
NativeScript and Trigger.io can be categorized as "Cross-Platform Mobile Development" tools.
Some of the features offered by NativeScript are:
- 100% Access to Native Platform API
- NativeScript is free of charge as an open source project
- Code with JavaScript. Style with CSS
On the other hand, Trigger.io provides the following key features:
- Build native apps for iOS and Android using JavaScript
- Native UI, push, analytics, login modules "out-of-the box"
- Cloud build service, no need to setup Eclipse / Xcode
NativeScript is an open source tool with 17.2K GitHub stars and 1.27K GitHub forks. Here's a link to NativeScript's open source repository on GitHub.