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Alexey2014-10-29 22:59:39
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Alexey, 2014-10-29 22:59:39

What "framework" would you recommend for creating a simple mobile app for iOS/Android based on HTML5?

Hello. We need to quickly make a simple mobile application ourselves : a catalog of ~ 1500 products, a 100 KB photo for each product and several text/numeric fields such as "Price", "Weight", "Manufacturer". The entire interactive will be reduced to a filter of 3-4 lists to select the desired product by fields with fixed values. All data, including 1500 photos, must be stored locally on the device (i.e. the catalog must work without the Internet), and if there is a network, the data must be updated from the server.
Since we are making a prototype for proof of concept, we don’t care about performance yet (if it takes root, then we will order native applications from someone later).
In the meantime, I want to dig deeper myself (and we are web developers in JS / PHP) and let managers drive to collect real feedback and feature requests.
In connection with all this, there are a number of questions for experienced people:
1. Do on Apache Cordova? Or is there something simpler and faster now?
2. Are there popular applications in the markets (at least 5000 installations) built on similar JS/HTML5 frameworks? If there is, then tell me a few specific ones (indicating on which framework it was done). I want to install and understand how terrible the brakes will be.
3. We will have to store about 150 megs of photos. Are there any tools for this in Apache Cordova or in the framework that you recommend?
Thank you for your responses.

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@AMar4enko

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=swor...
Ionic Framework, uses Cordova to communicate with the device.
Cordova's problem, in my opinion, is the Android WebView, which is a terrible drag.
On pre 4.4, an application built on cordova will slow down on android just mercilessly.
The problem is solved by partially replacing Cordova with CrossWalk, but with it an empty application weighs 65 MB in unpacked form, because inside it has its own WebView based on Chromium. But it does move more or less.

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