Phonegap vs Sencha Touch vs Titanium

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IntroductionIn this digital era, mobile apps are ubiquitous and touching your lives in every possible way. Whether you want to

buy movie tickets sitting in the comfort of your house or need a taxi to go home, mobile apps can do almost

everything for you. The cross-browser mobile app development has always been a preferred choice for app

developers as it requires less resource and can be created faster as compared to native apps.

We will now compare three main cross platform tools Phonegap vs Sencha Touch vs Titanium in an elaborative

way so that you can choose the right tool as per your need of mobile app development.

● Phonegap

PhoneGap is one of the popular open source mobile app development platforms. It makes use of standard web APIs

in order to build cross-platform mobile applications. This framework is based on HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript and

creates cross-browser mobile applications.

Features:● It wraps up the JS, HTML5 and CSS3 code into the native container of the respective platforms● It produces applications that provide native-like experience● With this tool, it is possible to create mobile applications for a range of platforms including iOS, Android,

Windows, Blackberry, Symbian, Web OS, Tizen, Ubuntu Touch, Bada, and FireFox OS.

● Sencha Touch

Sencha Touch is another popular mobile app development framework that also lets you build regular web-pages. It

is based on CSS3, HTML5, and JavaScript; therefore, empowers the mobile app developers to create cross-

platforms apps rapidly.

Features:● The mobile apps developed using this tool are contained inside the native containers.● They exhibit properties of native apps depending on the operating system.● The app developers community of Sencha Touch also offers open support to the users.● It has Device API, MVC, Data, and UI all clubbed into one.

● Titanium Appcelerator

Titanium Framework makes the app development process less cumbersome with the help of JavaScript codebase.

It also offers plethora of native features.

Features:● Titanium contains the IDE, SDK, and MVC (Model-view-controller) to create applications that are no less than

native apps.● The applications are created using the JavaScript code base and later wrapped inside the native container.● Applications for mobile platforms like iOS, Android, Tizen, Blackberry and Windows can be created using

Titanium Appcelerator Framework.

ConclusionAs it is evident that all these app development frameworks implement CSS3, HTML5, and JavaScript, the choice boils down

to the ease of development and usability. Among these popular app development frameworks, only PhoneGap framework is

open source and it is a strong reason why it is the most popular among developers and users as well. You can make the

choice depending on the individual requirement.

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