What are the advantages of Appcelerator over Phone Gap and which is better to use?

Question

Mobile development

What is better and easier to use for writing simple applications cross-platform?

Answer 1

Phone Gap is, roughly speaking, a single-window browser application, where a few simple APIs have been added (notifications, contacts, and simple notifications).
Appcelerator is an SDK for developing full-fledged applications. In addition to the fact that its API is much more extensive and affects not only web technologies, the main difference from Phone Gap is that it also issues platform-specific APIs. So, for example, on Android, you can start Ongoing notifications, create background services, standard Android menus (using the Menu button). In general, Appcelerator allows you to create absolutely full-fledged complex applications with a "native" interface that takes into account the features and capabilities of the platform. Look at the standard Kitchen Sink example in Titanium Studio (Appcelerator's IDE) - questions will disappear.
Phone Gap is designed for developing simple web applications. If it is necessary and sufficient for you to compile an HTML5 application into an Android application, Phone Gap will suffice. Otherwise only Appcelerator. IMHO.

Answer 2

I recently spoke with an American developer on this topic, he said that the Appselerator has a more “expected” and “intelligible” API.
And personally, I chose fongap for the simplest reason: I didn’t manage to launch the Appselerator, no matter how much I fucked and searched for information about this.
In addition, Fongup is more popular, judging by the number of mentions on the Internet and freelance orders; Fongap has an online application converter. I suspect that Fongup will dominate the market even more in the future.

Answer 3

I will raise the old topic, because. yesterday I set up Titanium, killed a lot of time, it worked extremely unstable on linux, as the forum and the search for solutions showed, then most of them use it on Windows and look for problems with the settings a bit tight. ), I didn’t like the fact that the empty project assembled in apk weighed 5.5 meters, which I think is a lot, because. this is for mobile and the weight of the application is important here =(
Now I’m looking for solutions for a simple connection between phonegap and ndk, otherwise I can’t stand reality >_<