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Onsen UI
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Open source and free
Onsen UI is open source, and completely free to use.
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Can be used for web apps as well
Onsen UI is usable for classic web development as well as mobile.
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Large selection of components
Onsen UI provides a wide selection of components that are ready to use out of the box and are easily customizable.
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Easy to use
Onsen UI provides very clear, well-written and detailed documentation. It uses popular technologies that are likely already familiar to developers (such as jQuery and Angular). The framework is semantic and intuitive to use, making it quite fast to learn.
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Supports React
React is the most trending front-end UI framework, naturally supporting that is a plus.
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Quasar Framework
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Uses Vue.js 2.0
Vue 3.x available as a plugin.
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Developed by a single person
Statistically, apps being developed by a single person can be gone without warning.
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Good documentation and coding samples
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Massive suite of well test & optimized widgets
Instant rebuild for SPA, PWA, Cordova or Electron with Material/iOS Themes.
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Designed from the outset for desktop & mobile
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Can build/test your PWA with/without PWA wrapper
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Supports server side rendering (SSR) like Nuxt + SSR/PWA
"Icon genie" builds app icons and splash images for platforms selected.
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Ability to add custom server side code when using SSR
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Platforms:
Windows, Linux, Mac, Web
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MIT
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Android, Blueberry, iOS, Windows Phone, Web
Supported languages:
Javascript, Typescript
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NativeScript
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Svelte Native
Used by Svelte framework for native development.
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Nativescript + Angular apps for Android tend to have long startup times.
It's very difficult to have acceptable startup times with NS+Angular in Android. It's not uncommon to see apps taking 6 sec or more to start AFTER having been optimized with Webpack (mandatory!). The same app in iOS takes only 2-3 sec. Also, this seems to happen only with the NS+Angular flavour. People using plain NS (without Angular) don't seem to have the issue.
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Leverages knowledge in Angular
Angular is a very popular framework, and teams already developing angular will feel right at home with Nativescript + Angular
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Works great with vue.js
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Flutter
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Open source
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Still in development
According to the website, Flutter is still in its early stages of development.
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Great developer tools debug/hotreload/analyser
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Based on Dart language
Dart is a Java like language, easy to learn and startup fast for millions of Java developers. BUT if you have to learn it ... it's a con.
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Based on Dart language
Dart is a Java like language, easy to learn and startup fast for millions of Java developers.
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Dart is unpopular and never gained serious community traction like Kotlin or Java
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A single codebase for iOS AND Android
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Does not support 32-bit iOS devices
If you plan on targeting iPhone 5, 5C or earlier, you can forget about Flutter.
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Fast
The developer's goal is to allow people to make apps running at 120 FPS.
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Google has a bad history with product loyalty
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Dev platforms:
Windows, Mac and Linux
Desktop targets:
announced Windows
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Android and iOS
Popular Language Bindings:
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Ionic Framework
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Cordova plugins
Large quantity of plugins to access native APIs without code nothing in native language.
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Can be buggy
Ionic is still a young framework (version 1.0 was released in May 2015). There are still some quirks and bugs in the framework to work out, which you can see a list of on their Github. However Ionic is under active development and bugs are generally addressed quickly.
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Large, friendly and active community
Ionic Framework is currently one of the most popular frameworks for hybrid mobile app development. This has resulted in a very large community of active users who contribute to the community by writing tutorials and answering questions.
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Free and open source
Ionic is free to use and open source, resulting in an active and helpful community of users and contributors.
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React Native
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Allows you to develop native apps
React Native allows you to create native apps by generating native views with JavaScript instead of using a web wrapper.
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If core team doesn't use a certain feature, it's not developed
Whenever there's functionality you need that they don't use in their apps, it's not going to get developed by them, even if it's obvious it should be in the core. They always say to either submit a PR or create a separate module.
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Large, supportive community
Despite being such a young framework (early 2015), the support for React Native grew quickly. There is a forum, active tag on Stackoverflow and many other ways to get help from the community.
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Steep learning curve
React Native is not the most beginner-friendly framework for creating mobile apps with JavaScript. It requires that the developer know React, which is known to have a steep learning curve.
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Backed by Facebook
Facebook writes their mobile apps in React Native so the code base gets pretty thoroughly used in some highly demanding scenarios.
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Many existing JS libraries are not usable on React Native; not exactly a 1-to-1 experience to writing React either
Example: Library that provides a full calendar with agenda view. In the end it's much easier to develop in actual JavaScript with a solution such as Ionic, especially if your app needs to work well on the desktop.
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More predictable control of the state
The one way data flow, makes it more predictable and easy to control.
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React native only supports react which is getting old
React native is only based on react which is getting old. An old tech developer can't take much breaking changes so it gets more patchs. There is a limit, and react is too verbose and complex. better alternatives available today.
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Tabris Framework
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Real device deployment
Connect your PC and mobile device through Wi-Fi using Tabris CLI - and just hit the Refresh button in your application to see the latest code version in action. No emulators or attempts to run a mobile application in the browser.
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Cordova plugins support
Most Cordova plugins work with Tabris as plug-n-play modules, without any special tuning.
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Beginner-friendly
Tabris is very easy to use. You can just download Tabris Dev App from Play Store/AppStore and run any example from GitHub or code snippet from documentation right away using Playground. Documentation is easy-to-follow, and to start developing in your local environment you should only download lightweight CLI tool that will pull application code from your PC to mobile device using Wi-Fi.
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Native widgets instead of web views
Tabris using native widgets - it makes your app run faster and look...native - regardless of platform. Stop trying to make your buttons look "like real iOS buttons" when you can just use the native ones.
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Completely free
Framework and all required tools are free. Playground and Dev App - free. Online build services -for free. For some time local build service was under a paywall, but now that feature is also free for everyone.
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Sencha Touch
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Commercial and expensive
Sencha Touch is targeted towards enterprise-level development, and the price tag reflects that. There are many different product options available by Sencha. Most licenses start in the thousands of dollars, and require a minimum purchase of 5.
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Native feel
Sencha Touch is well known for its ability to provide a native app experience through it's native-like themes and widgets.
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Detailed documentation
Sencha provides exhaustive documentation that covers all aspects of developing with their products. They also provide a well written getting started guide that's easy to follow.
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B4X
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Create easy, fast cross-platform views with less code
B4XUI custom views are designed, by Erel and other forum members, exactly with this in mind; custom views that act and feel exactly the same no matter what platform you target.
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Java-dependent Desktop Development
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Powerful general purpose programming tool
As mentioned in its website, "With B4X, anyone who wants to, can develop real-world solutions."
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Only for Windows
The IDE, while very handy, only runs on Windows. If you want to code on Mac or Linux, you have to install it on a virtual machine. But you can debug your app by running it on the target OS.
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A very active forum where you can find any issue you have, and quick answers to new ones
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The documentation and examples and tutorials are not up to date
The documentation and examples and tutorials are not up to date.
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A highly motivated program author who is very active in the forums
Erel Uziel is simply the most pro-active Soft-Creator/Forum Manager you will ever come across. If it has not yet been asked & answered, just ask and you will be answered withing minutes, and thanks to it being a trully international forum, this is achieved 24h/7d.
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For BASIC language lovers
Lots of people are not fans of BASIC-like languages. Enjoyment of B4X, may depend on having a background or affinity for BASIC.
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Very easy to use and powerful for IoT
Support for Bluetooth/BLE, MQTT, TCP/UDP, Serial, NFC, Websockets, HTTP/2 across platforms makes it the ideal tool for IoT projects.
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Can still need deep knowledge of Java
Attempts to provide BASIC-like language that is more comfortable for a certain demographic of users, but various circumstances will still require knowledge of Java. "No free lunch".
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Live code swapping
A huge productivity boost when you can run your apps on the devices and make code changes real time without needing to recompile.
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Lack of B4W real Web app
Erel needs to make a real Web app designer.
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No complexities compared with other tools
No need to learn JAVA, C+, PHP, or any other complementary languages in order to achieve exactly what you need.
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The best all round
Produces highly optimised end results. Easy to use and quick to learn. When you know how to produce an Android app you near enough know how to produce an IOS app. The fact that there are subtle differences between writing for different platforms is a huge plus - those differences help optimise your code and they're really not difficult to wrap your head round.
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Erel has much passion for his tool
The speed of answer topics is amazing.
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Many informative video tutorials
The tutorials help beginners as well as more experienced programmers grasping important concepts.
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Many code examples of fully working apps for free
The Forum is filled with many code examples of fully working apps for free. Code snippets, animation, different type of views etc. can be easily downloaded and used in your own app.
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Large user community
Over the years it has built up a very active user community that is very involved in the evolution of B4X. In their forums you can find any answer to your questions, and if it is not there, they will answer you.
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RAD
VERY Rapid Application Development, with tons of pro features.
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Tightly integrated framework
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Almost everything is free and complete
Except the IDE for iOS. Even so it's very cheap.
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Android, iOS, Windows, Mac, Linux, Web, Raspberry Pi, Arduino
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Apache License 2.0
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B4X
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Windows, Mac (via VM), Linux (via VM), Web
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Kendo UI
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Expensive commercial tools [$699, $1,499]
The other core tools developed with Kendo are the commercial tools. There is the Professional version for $699 that will result in more jQuery UI widgets and client support. The $1499 "DevCraft" Complete edition gets developers the DevCraft .NET toolbox, testing and debugging frameworks and applications, as well as priority support.
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Free Core tools
Kendo UI is separated into a commercial and open source frameworks. The core of Kendo UI is in the open source frameworks, but some usability and benefits of Kendo UI are lost without the commercial version.
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Platform-based UI
Kendo knows what device it is being viewed on so it can adjust the UI accordingly. If a user is on a PC the user will see things differently than on a mobile device. Between iOS and Android the user will also notice a different as it pulls from the core UI of those core systems.
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Theme Builder
An interactive tool that has been created to customize an apps theme. Users are able to select from many pre-defined themes, edit them, and download the theme to bring into a project.
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Telerik AppBuilder
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Plugins for popular IDEs
Telerik provides Visual Studio and Sublime Text plugins for the AppBuilder.
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Young project with a small community
AppBuilder is a young project that's been fairly slow to gain popularity. This means the community is rather small, so there is a limited amount of 3rd party learning resources available. There is a forum, but it's not very active.
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Integrates with Apache Cordova
AppBuilder offers a fast way to import Cordova plugins such as the camera.
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Felgo (formerly V-Play)
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Mature cross platform IDE
Qt-Creator IDE with Code Completion, Debugging and Profiling, integrated Quick Help, Version Control and more.
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No 3rd party tutorials
There are little to none amount of tutorials for Felgo other than what was made by the engine developers themselves.
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Easy to learn
Felgo is among the easiest cross-platform tools to use according to a survey done by research2guidance.
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In-game level editor
With the Level Editor components, you can let your players share their levels with the whole game community which is cool because you don't need to create new levels on your own, but the community helps you with it. There are other community features like rewards for good level creators that helps getting more downloads.
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Felgo game network
Leaderboards, Achievements, Challenges are available across platform, even on Desktop. You can also use Cloud Syncinc of your game data that makes it easy to start a game for example on iPhone and then continue on a Nexus Tablet or the other way around. It is also convenient because sharing to all kind of game services & networks like Facebook & Game Center is possible with a single API call. Custom hosting of Game Network servers is also possible if you want to keep the player data.
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Native performance
Although game logic is provided in JavaScript by you, performance-critical parts of the engine like OpenGL ES rendering or particle effects are implemented in rock-solid C++, providing the ultimate performance your game deserves.
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Advanced gaming components
Advanced Gaming Components for handling multiple display resolutions & aspect ratios, animations, particles, physics, multi-touch, gestures, path finding and more.
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Felgo build server
No need for native SDKs, Build in and Install from Cloud with the Felgo Build Server.
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Rapid development
Cut your development time in half. Using the QML language allows for some powerful features that cut code lines and time. Another helpful feature that can help in this area is that there are more than 50 game demos of all genres that come with full source code, meaning one can easily check to see how something was done.
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Support can be found in forums and via e-mail
Felgo has friendly forums where core developers participate as well as fast & helpful email support.
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Based on Qt framework
The Qt framework is a great and mature framework on its own. Using Qt as a game engine base is a smart idea.
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Runtime-balancing
You can use ready-made components to balance any of your game properties at runtime, so also on mobile devices which is great for adjusting forces or input parameters.
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Lots of learning resources
Helps get started and improve with lots of tutorials, demo games, examples.
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Social services and monetization
In-app purchases, game and social network integration (such as Game Center and Facebook), ads (with Chartboost and AdMob) and analytics (such as Flurry) are all available across platforms.
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Frequent updates
Every 2-4 weeks new updates provide additional features and fixes based on what users wanted the most.
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Level store
You can even monetize these user-generated levels with in-app purchases with the Felgo Level Store component if you like.
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License:
Proprietary
Languages:
HTML
Dev platforms:
Windows; OSX; Linux
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Windows; OSX; Linux
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Polymer
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Various basic components
It provides a base component.
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No server-side rendering
Polymer does not support server-side rendering. This results in higher loading times, more HTTP requests and it's not very SEO friendly, since search engines have no way of indexing a page if it's not rendered in the server.
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HTML markup is not string
HTML markup as it can be a non-string.
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Flex layout components
It provides Flex layout components.
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CSS is easy to apply
CSS can be applied far more comfortably than React.
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No need for special debugging tools
The presence od specialized debugging tools are advertised by competitors. The all features of web components are natively supported by browser embedded development tools.
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Excellent routing
The router is embedded into CLI for project creation and covers as web as Progressive web app, also fused with Polymer layouts out of the box. The shop template for CLI has a complete solution including the routing.
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Complete web app stack support
Full app stack from data tier to routing, progressive web app, responsive layouts makes no need to seek outside of Polymer ecosystem for application features. In addition to waste set of mature web components in Polymer Elements along with Vaadin Elements there are thousands of web components in the wild comparable to jQuery plugins set.
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Excellent documentation
Polymer guides you as with tools (cli, build environment, app templates,..) as with complimentary documentation on all phases of app development from creation of app as progresive web app to production deployment instructions. As Polymer is standards based, the whole community around those standards also helping in documentation and support.
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Based on web components
Web Components are a collection of specifications released by W3C as a way to reduce the complexity of web apps by creating reusable components. Browser support is currently poor for web components, however Polymer is developed to make web components compatible with modern browsers.
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API is easy to understand, based on standard
The Polymer APIs are split on application layers and follow standards on all possible ways: Web Components, CSS variables, async API via Promises and so on.
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v2.0 GZipped size (Firefox):
32K
v1.0 GZipped size:
53K
v2.0 GZipped size (Safari):
13K
v2.0 GZipped size (Chrome):
10K
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jQuery Mobile
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The project is practically abandoned
The last release was in 2014. Samsung Tizen Advanced UI (TAU), for example, was started with JQuery, but it was forked off and completely rebuilt from scratch with jQuery concepts but without JQuery dependency itself.
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Resources
With HTML5 development being relatively amateur jQuery Mobile has a vast selection of resources to assist. These resources include websites, books, apps and other frameworks, 3rd party plugins and extensions, and more. All of these can help ramp up and excel the project development cycle.
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Clunky and slow
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ThemeRoller
An interactive tool that has been created to customize an apps theme. Users can import a current theme, make changes, and export the theme back to the app for integration.
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No MVC support
There is no included MVC support in jQuery Mobile. It is possible to achieve this, however, using other frameworks such as BackboneJS in combination with jQuery Mobile, but there are a few limitations. Specifically that MVC frameworks, such as BackboneJS or KnockoutJS, are not compatible with jQuery Mobile page routing.
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Download Builder
To optimize application development jQuery Mobile provides a tool to allow the user to customize the framework. It contains the ability to pick and choose which modules to include and then bundles the framework so it contains only what is needed.
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Codename One
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High performance
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Open source
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Highly customizable
By utilizing lightweight component architecture and the built in graphical designer and theming options you are able to customize a good looking app on any platform.
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Java 8 support
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Works with all IDEs
Works with NetBeans, Eclipse, IntelliJ, etc.
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Multi-platform development environments (via build server)
You can even use Linux desktops to build native iOS apps, no need for a Mac.
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Vibrant & helpful community
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Attractive pricing
It is possible to build production grade apps even with the free version. Pricing is decent when compared to competitors like Xamarin.
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License:
GPL with Classpath Exception, allows you to build proprietary applications
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Java, Kotlin
Dev platforms:
Windows, Mac, Linux
Desktop targets:
Windows, Mac, Linux
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Intel's App Framework
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Lightweight
Intel's App Framework is built to be lightweight and fast.
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Weak documentation
The documentation for the app framework is fairly basic, with a limited number of descriptions/explanations given.
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Supports variety of platforms
Intel's App Framework allows you to build apps for just about any platform. iOS, Android, Windows 8, Tizen, Amazon, Nook, Chrome & Firefox.
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