To my knowledge phonegap runs in a WebView and provides JavaScript functions for interfacing with device features. You can never ever get native app performance out of a web app.
Especially the rendering is slow on Android's WebView, because all these nice little webkit CSS transformations are not hardware accelerated like on iPhone. Animations will be sluggish by default. Also (out of experience) handling touch events with JavaScript will be sluggish. It simply does not feel "right". Since WebView is a closed environment you cannot change, there is also no way to significantly improve the performance. The only thing you could do is simplifying the user interface, cut out fancy animations and so on. I know that solutions like phonegap appear to be very attractive at a first glance because you can reduce development time / cost. But in the long run you are facing these performance issues. And some users will even notice that their app is "fake" because it is running in a WebView. Instead of using phonegap you could also take a look at http://www.appcelerator.com/developers Basically you are coding in JavaScript and the compiler generates native applications for your target platforms (Android, iPhone). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
