Ask HN: Best Open Source Phonegap and Titanium Apps?

Re:Ask HN: Best Open Source Phonegap and Titanium Apps? by jbzd on Thursday February 20, 2014 @10:42AM (#7271309)

We have an internal framework sitting on top of appcelerator's titanium that makes our app look at exactly the same on iOS and android. I mean exactly the same. The app specific code does not need to think about what platform it is on. We do this because titanium does some of the leg work but -rightfully- not all the leg work in achieving that. We get close to native code performance (better performance than Phonegap - tried that first - because its native controls). We have a large data layer and phonegap performance just degraded way too far with the amount of data in play that we needed.

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Re:Ask HN: Best Open Source Phonegap and Titanium Apps? by herokusaki on Thursday February 20, 2014 @10:50AM (#7271366)

> I mean exactly the same.

Unless a unique UI is a selling point of your app is that really desirable? After all, Android and iOS user interfaces have (somewhat) different conventions.

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Re:Ask HN: Best Open Source Phonegap and Titanium Apps? by jbzd on Thursday February 20, 2014 @12:43PM (#7272284)

They are getting closer and closer so we're at a somewhere in the middle design where it doesn't really feel out of place on either platform. In some areas you can admittedly tell we leaned heavily towards iOS (i.e. pickers). Three factors led us this direction.

a) We're a small company, we can't make having separate android and ios teams feasible. Writing and maintaining a single code base and separating out ui/platform concerns from that was ideal.

b) User training is much simpler if the app walks and talks exactly the same way when you have a large number of not-necessarily-technical users. Especially when some of those users may have android phones and iOS tablets and hop between the two.

c) Similar to b, customer support is much simpler when things work the same way and look the same way, again, especially for not-necessarily-technical users. Sending screenshots, directing over the phone or email, etc, all get much much simpler.

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Re:Ask HN: Best Open Source Phonegap and Titanium Apps? by andybak on Thursday February 20, 2014 @11:54AM (#7271871)

Yeah. I'm curious. Does it look out of place on iOS, out of place on Android or out of place on both?

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