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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.

Decisions about PhoneGap and RubyMotion

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Pros of PhoneGap

Pros of RubyMotion

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Javascript
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Backed by Adobe
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Free
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Easy and developer friendly
6
Support more platforms
3
It's javascript, html, and css
2
Common code base across all mobile platform
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Not bound to specific framework
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Powerful Framework
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Runs on mobile browser
1
Similar UI across all platform
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Free easy fast and not buggy in my experience

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Ruby Syntax
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Editor + Terminal workflow; minimal Xcode involvement
4
Great Community
3
Fast Prototyping
3
Great gems, libraries, and frameworks
2
Leverage CocoaPods and Gradle
2
Cross Platform
1
Light Code

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Cons of PhoneGap

Cons of RubyMotion

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

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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.

What is RubyMotion?

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.

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What are some alternatives to PhoneGap and RubyMotion?

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.

Xamarin

Xamarin’s Mono-based products enable .NET developers to use their existing code, libraries and tools (including Visual Studio*), as well as skills in .NET and the C# programming language, to create mobile applications for the industry’s most widely-used mobile devices, including Android-based smartphones and tablets, iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.

Apache Cordova

Apache Cordova is a set of device APIs that allow a mobile app developer to access native device function such as the camera or accelerometer from JavaScript. Combined with a UI framework such as jQuery Mobile or Dojo Mobile or Sencha Touch, this allows a smartphone app to be developed with just HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

PWA

Building a high-quality Progressive Web App has incredible benefits, making it easy to delight your users, grow engagement and increase conversions.It is intended to work on any platform that uses a standards-compliant browser.

Sencha Touch

Sencha Touch 2, a high-performance HTML5 mobile application framework, is the cornerstone of the Sencha HTML5 platform. Built for enabling world-class user experiences, Sencha Touch 2 is the only framework that enables developers to build fast and impressive apps that work on iOS, Android, BlackBerry, Kindle Fire, and more.

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