When comparing Tizen vs Ionic Framework, the Slant community recommends Ionic Framework for most people. In the question“What are the best frameworks for creating mobile web apps?” Ionic Framework is ranked 3rd while Tizen is ranked 6th. The most important reason people chose Ionic Framework is:
Large quantity of plugins to access native APIs without code nothing in native language.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Open source
Some parts of the OS are open source.
Pro Fast
Pro HTML5-based
Pro Cordova plugins
Large quantity of plugins to access native APIs without code nothing in native language.
Pro 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.
Pro Free and open source
Ionic is free to use and open source, resulting in an active and helpful community of users and contributors.
Cons
Con Based on EFL libraries
A perfect experience of a developer working with EFL: https://what.thedailywtf.com/topic/15001/enlightened
Con Worst Code Base
Amihai Neiderman, a Kaspersky Labs researcher said, “It may be the worst code I’ve ever seen, Everything you can do wrong there, they do it. You can see that nobody with any understanding of security looked at this code or wrote it.”
Con Lack of apps
Con Aesthetically unappealing
Con Lack of security
With the recent discoveries of a number of security flaws, tizen is no longer a secure OS that it advertises.
Con 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.