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Nice for prototyping, but it needs a button to generate the native code. That would be truly useful.

• dksidana 13y ago
  Generating native code from html is certainly not easy.
  • iancarroll 13y ago
    It's certainly easy with http://build.phonegap.com http://build.phonegap.com
    • aplummer 13y ago
      That's not native code...
      • eddieroger 13y ago
        Well, the web view it puts your app in to is native. So that counts, right?
        • camus 13y ago
          no it doesnt and it certainly doesnt feel native either. especially with the latest ios and android os.
          • raelshark 13y ago
            Are you saying that the webviews for some reason feel less native in the newer OS versions, or that the latest native OSes are so fast that the webview's shortcomings stand out more?
            • argonaut 13y ago
              A WebView is just that - a web view. A WebView is just a fancy name for a browser window embedded inside an app. So PhoneGap applications are technically "hybrid apps." The WebView portion of the app is native code - but that really is just a technical nuance with no implications for performance (in fact, the performance implications are negative), because it's like claiming that your website is "native" since it runs in a browser (say, Safari) and the browser is written in native code. But the non-native portion of the app is what goes inside the WebView (HTML/CSS/JS).
          • eddieroger 13y ago
            Sorry, I guess my sarcasm wasn't apparent. Of course it's not the same.
• aplummer 13y ago
  To be useful that would pretty much need to be actual magic