PhoneGap vs RubyMotion: What are the differences?
Developers describe PhoneGap as "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. On the other hand, RubyMotion is detailed as "Write cross-platform native apps in Ruby". RubyMotion lets you quickly develop cross-platform native apps for iOS, Android and OS X, all using your favorite editor and the awesome Ruby language you know and love.
PhoneGap and RubyMotion belong to "Cross-Platform Mobile Development" category of the tech stack.
"Javascript" is the top reason why over 44 developers like PhoneGap, while over 3 developers mention "Editor + Terminal workflow; minimal Xcode involvement" as the leading cause for choosing RubyMotion.
PhoneGap is an open source tool with 4.15K GitHub stars and 974 GitHub forks. Here's a link to PhoneGap's open source repository on GitHub.