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PhoneGap vs JUCE: What are the differences?
What is PhoneGap? Easilily create mobile apps using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. PhoneGap is a web platform that exposes native mobile device apis and data to JavaScript. PhoneGap is a distribution of Apache Cordova. PhoneGap allows you to use standard web technologies such as HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript for cross-platform development, avoiding each mobile platforms' native development language. Applications execute within wrappers targeted to each platform, and rely on standards-compliant API bindings to access each device's sensors, data, and network status.
What is JUCE? Deliver music applications on all main platforms, with high performances and professional tools. It is a C++ framework for low-latency applications, with cross-platform GUI libraries to get your apps running on Mac OS X, Windows, Linux, iOS and Android.
PhoneGap can be classified as a tool in the "Cross-Platform Mobile Development" category, while JUCE is grouped under "Cross-Platform Desktop Development".
Some of the features offered by PhoneGap are:
- Android
- Blackberry
- iOS
On the other hand, JUCE provides the following key features:
- For desktop and mobile
- Building powerful and complex applications
- User Interface & Graphics
PhoneGap and JUCE are both open source tools. PhoneGap with 4.14K GitHub stars and 972 forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than JUCE with 1.66K GitHub stars and 682 GitHub forks.
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I didn't find any plugins for it. So I've implemented it by myself and shared it on GitHub.
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Pros of JUCE
- Cross platform4
- Fast2
- Pure C++ code1
- Open Source1
- Performance1
- Nice GUI1
Pros of PhoneGap
- Javascript46
- Backed by Adobe13
- Free11
- Easy and developer friendly9
- Support more platforms6
- It's javascript, html, and css3
- Common code base across all mobile platform2
- Not bound to specific framework1
- Powerful Framework1
- Runs on mobile browser1
- Similar UI across all platform1
- Free easy fast and not buggy in my experience0
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Cons of JUCE
- Free Edition has Made with Juce2
Cons of PhoneGap
- Never as good as a native app2
- Created for web pages, not for complex Apps1
- Poor user experience1
- Not build for high performance1
- Hard to see1