How advantageous is PhoneGap? [closed]

Question

I am planning to do an app on all Mobile Platform. I found Phone gap is a solution for write once deploy anywhere.

The app just have to talk to a webservice and display information in a grid layout grouped under categories.

Anyone who has developed apps in phone gap can share your views and thoughts on this.

Does phone gap really serve this purpose? - Write once and deploy any?

Will the look and feel be the same in Android, iphone etc. (these are 2 platforms I am most interested on.)

How about the performance on different platforms ? What are the other blocks I might hit down the road?

Thank you all in Advance..

Answer 1

if that is REALLY all your app needs to do then I believe PhoneGap can meet your needs. I have been working with it for about 4-6 months now and find it "capable". For my situation I am developing for a specific client and for myself so some of lack of structure around PhoneGap makes it risky when I am pitching it to my client.

I have recently started to look into Appcelerator as another cross-platform tool. It has gotten decent press lately and the tools and the documentation and support around it "appear" to be more polished and professional than PhoneGap; this make it an "easier pitch" to my clients.

That being said, I think BOTH solutions can meet the needs of your application as you have described it above.