Worthy analogues of phonegap?

Question

Mobile development

Hello.
Recently, the question arose of writing a product catalog for iOS and Android.
As a solution fits phonegap. In theory, quickly and not difficult + all platforms.
Are there worthy analogues of phonegap and why should phonegap be abandoned in favor of these analogues?
Share your experience.
UPD. I write on obj-c. Interested in analogues in html, css, js frameworks.

Answer 1

For writing a business app (and a product catalog is just such a thing), phongap / cordova does not have many competitors (especially if we take the ionic framework and the like as a basis). It is possible that Titanium can be inserted somewhere nearby, but alas, I haven’t seen what’s there for a couple of years (and apparently they changed something drastically in the last major version).
Why do I think that Xamarin, Qt, Corona SDK, etc. not competitors - because of the time to implement for each platform. Yes, business logic can not be duplicated, but in your application it is about half the time, the second half of the time is UI. In this regard, Cordova wins because the UI is the same for all platforms. It's not cool for regular applications, but it's great for business applications. On average, the time to implement an application on Cordova, if we take one platform, is about the same as that of Xamarin and others, and only slightly less than the native one (yes, writing for one platform will be more profitable in the native language and frameworks). But it is worth adding one more platform to the list of supported platforms and the gap is narrowing. In the same Xamarin and the like, you will have to implement the UI for each platform separately, which adds an overhead to the time.
If the application has a complex UI, interactivity, etc. then Xamarin already has a profit, etc.
Qt as an option is also not bad, native UI (although it is not quite native, but the speed is more than good), C ++, the speed of the application .... but is it really necessary for a product catalog?
Here ... for your task, I would take Cordova + ionic, since for two platforms it will come out much cheaper and easier to maintain. An interactive catalog (for example, augmented reality like ikea) - here I would rather take Qt or Xamarin, or maybe I would just implement most of the logic in C ++ and implement everything else natively.

Answer 2

If it's still relevant, look at the analogues here .