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PhoneGap vs GameSparks: What are the differences?

Developers describe PhoneGap as "Easilily create mobile apps using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript". PhoneGap is a web platform that exposes native mobile device apis and data to JavaScript. PhoneGap is a distribution of Apache Cordova. PhoneGap allows you to use standard web technologies such as HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript for cross-platform development, avoiding each mobile platforms' native development language. Applications execute within wrappers targeted to each platform, and rely on standards-compliant API bindings to access each device's sensors, data, and network status. On the other hand, GameSparks is detailed as "All your server-side needs in one platform: Build, Tune, Manage & Monetize". The unity of the server-side. GameSparks is a cloud-based development platform for games developers enabling them to build all of their game's server-side.

PhoneGap and GameSparks are primarily classified as "Cross-Platform Mobile Development" and "Game Development" tools respectively.

Some of the features offered by PhoneGap are:

Android
Blackberry
iOS

On the other hand, GameSparks provides the following key features:

Social & Multiplayer
Meta-Game & Economies
Custom Backoffice

PhoneGap is an open source tool with 4.12K GitHub stars and 969 GitHub forks. Here's a link to PhoneGap's open source repository on GitHub.

Decisions about GameSparks and PhoneGap

Aleksandr Filatov

Contract Software Engineer - Microsoft · Dec 23, 2019 | 2 upvotes · 108K views

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What is Proguard?

ProGuard is the most popular optimizer for Java bytecode. It makes your Java and Android applications up to 90% smaller and up to 20% faster. ProGuard also provides minimal protection against reverse engineering by obfuscating the names of classes, fields and methods.

How to use it in Cordova app?

I didn't find any plugins for it. So I've implemented it by myself and shared it on GitHub.

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Javascript
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Backed by Adobe
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Free
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Easy and developer friendly
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Support more platforms
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It's javascript, html, and css
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Common code base across all mobile platform
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Not bound to specific framework
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Powerful Framework
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Runs on mobile browser
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Similar UI across all platform
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Free easy fast and not buggy in my experience

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Never as good as a native app
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Created for web pages, not for complex Apps
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Poor user experience
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Not build for high performance
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Hard to see

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What is GameSparks?

The unity of the server-side. GameSparks is a cloud-based development platform for games developers enabling them to build all of their game's server-side

What is PhoneGap?

PhoneGap is a web platform that exposes native mobile device apis and data to JavaScript. PhoneGap is a distribution of Apache Cordova. PhoneGap allows you to use standard web technologies such as HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript for cross-platform development, avoiding each mobile platforms' native development language. Applications execute within wrappers targeted to each platform, and rely on standards-compliant API bindings to access each device's sensors, data, and network status.

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What are some alternatives to GameSparks and PhoneGap?

PlayFab

It unlocks a new world of creativity for game developers by providing a cross-platform "backend-as-a-service" built exclusively for games. We give game developers the tools, technologies, and know-how they need to have a trouble-free launch day, and profitable day-to-day operations after that.

Photon

The fastest way to build beautiful Electron apps using simple HTML and CSS. Underneath it all is Electron. Originally built for GitHub's Atom text editor, Electron is the easiest way to build cross-platform desktop applications.

Firebase

Firebase is a cloud service designed to power real-time, collaborative applications. Simply add the Firebase library to your application to gain access to a shared data structure; any changes you make to that data are automatically synchronized with the Firebase cloud and with other clients within milliseconds.

React Native

React Native enables you to build world-class application experiences on native platforms using a consistent developer experience based on JavaScript and React. The focus of React Native is on developer efficiency across all the platforms you care about - learn once, write anywhere. Facebook uses React Native in multiple production apps and will continue investing in React Native.

Flutter

Flutter is a mobile app SDK to help developers and designers build modern mobile apps for iOS and Android.

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