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Onsen UI vs PhoneGap: What are the differences?

Onsen UI: HTML5 Hybrid Mobile App UI Framework - work with Angular, React, Vue, Meteor & pure JavaScript. Material & Flat design. Onsen UI helps you develop both hybrid and web apps. If developing hybrid apps, you can use it with the Cordova / PhoneGap command line, or with Monaca tools (CLI, Monaca IDE - cloud-based IDE for Cordova, Localkit - desktop GUI); 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.

Onsen UI and PhoneGap can be categorized as "Cross-Platform Mobile Development" tools.

Some of the features offered by Onsen UI are:

Open source HTML5 hybrid app framework for PhoneGap & Cordova
JavaScript framework agnostic
Mobile-optimized HTML5, CSS and JavaScript with Web components

On the other hand, PhoneGap provides the following key features:

Android
Blackberry
iOS

Onsen UI and PhoneGap are both open source tools. Onsen UI with 7.47K GitHub stars and 866 forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than PhoneGap with 4.15K GitHub stars and 974 GitHub forks.

Decisions about Onsen UI and PhoneGap

Aleksandr Filatov

Contract Software Engineer - Microsoft · Dec 23, 2019 | 2 upvotes · 108K views

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What is Proguard?

ProGuard is the most popular optimizer for Java bytecode. It makes your Java and Android applications up to 90% smaller and up to 20% faster. ProGuard also provides minimal protection against reverse engineering by obfuscating the names of classes, fields and methods.

How to use it in Cordova app?

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 Onsen UI

Pros of PhoneGap

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Hybrid mobile
3
Works with any JavaScript framework
3
Allows for rapid prototyping
2
Free

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Javascript
13
Backed by Adobe
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Free
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Easy and developer friendly
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Support more platforms
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It's javascript, html, and css
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Common code base across all mobile platform
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Not bound to specific framework
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Powerful Framework
1
Runs on mobile browser
1
Similar UI across all platform
0
Free easy fast and not buggy in my experience

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Cons of Onsen UI

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Never as good as a native app
1
Created for web pages, not for complex Apps
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Poor user experience
1
Not build for high performance
1
Hard to see

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What is Onsen UI?

Onsen UI helps you develop both hybrid and web apps. If developing hybrid apps, you can use it with the Cordova / PhoneGap command line, or with Monaca tools (CLI, Monaca IDE - cloud-based IDE for Cordova, Localkit - desktop GUI).

What is PhoneGap?

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.

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What companies use Onsen UI?

What companies use PhoneGap?

Monaca

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What tools integrate with PhoneGap?

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What are some alternatives to Onsen UI and PhoneGap?

Ionic

Free and open source, Ionic offers a library of mobile and desktop-optimized HTML, CSS and JS components for building highly interactive apps. Use with Angular, React, Vue, or plain JavaScript.

React Native

React Native enables you to build world-class application experiences on native platforms using a consistent developer experience based on JavaScript and React. The focus of React Native is on developer efficiency across all the platforms you care about - learn once, write anywhere. Facebook uses React Native in multiple production apps and will continue investing in React Native.

Framework7

It is a free and open source mobile HTML framework to develop hybrid mobile apps or web apps with iOS native look and feel. All you need to make it work is a simple HTML layout and attached framework's CSS and JS files.

Bootstrap

Bootstrap is the most popular HTML, CSS, and JS framework for developing responsive, mobile first projects on the web.

jQuery Mobile

jQuery Mobile is a HTML5-based user interface system designed to make responsive web sites and apps that are accessible on all smartphone, tablet and desktop devices.

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