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PhoneGap vs Qt: What are the differences?

What is PhoneGap? 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.

What is Qt? A leading cross-platform application and UI framework. Qt, a leading cross-platform application and UI framework. With Qt, you can develop applications once and deploy to leading desktop, embedded & mobile targets.

PhoneGap and Qt can be primarily classified as "Cross-Platform Mobile Development" tools.

PhoneGap is an open source tool with 4.15K GitHub stars and 975 GitHub forks. Here's a link to PhoneGap's open source repository on GitHub.

According to the StackShare community, PhoneGap has a broader approval, being mentioned in 86 company stacks & 36 developers stacks; compared to Qt, which is listed in 10 company stacks and 17 developer stacks.

Decisions about PhoneGap and Qt

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Contract Software Engineer - Microsoft · Dec 23, 2019 | 2 upvotes · 107.4K views

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Pros of PhoneGap

Pros of Qt

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Javascript
13
Backed by Adobe
11
Free
9
Easy and developer friendly
6
Support more platforms
3
It's javascript, html, and css
2
Common code base across all mobile platform
1
Not bound to specific framework
1
Powerful Framework
1
Runs on mobile browser
1
Similar UI across all platform
0
Free easy fast and not buggy in my experience

17
High Performance
13
Declarative, easy and flexible UI
12
Cross platform
12
Performance
9
Fast prototyping
8
Easiest integration with C++
8
Up to date framework
7
Python
6
Multiple license including Open Source and Commercial
6
Safe 2D Renderer
5
Great Community Support
4
HW Accelerated UI
4
Game Engine like UI system
3
No history of broken compatibility with a major version
3
JIT and QML Compiler
3
True cross-platform framework with native code compile
3
Reliable for industrial use
3
Pure C++
3
Been using it since the 90s - runs anywhere does it all
2
Open source
2
Easy Integrating to DX and OpenGL and Vulkan
2
From high to low level coding
1
Learning Curve
1
Great mobile support with Felgo add-on
1
Native looking GUI

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Cons of PhoneGap

Cons of Qt

2
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
1
Not build for high performance
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Hard to see

5
Paid
4
C++ is not so productive
2
Lack of community support
1
Lack of libraries
1
Not detailed documentation

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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.

What is Qt?

Qt, a leading cross-platform application and UI framework. With Qt, you can develop applications once and deploy to leading desktop, embedded & mobile targets.

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What are some alternatives to PhoneGap and Qt?

Ionic

Free and open source, Ionic offers a library of mobile and desktop-optimized HTML, CSS and JS components for building highly interactive apps. Use with Angular, React, Vue, or plain JavaScript.

Xamarin

Xamarin’s Mono-based products enable .NET developers to use their existing code, libraries and tools (including Visual Studio*), as well as skills in .NET and the C# programming language, to create mobile applications for the industry’s most widely-used mobile devices, including Android-based smartphones and tablets, iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.

Apache Cordova

Apache Cordova is a set of device APIs that allow a mobile app developer to access native device function such as the camera or accelerometer from JavaScript. Combined with a UI framework such as jQuery Mobile or Dojo Mobile or Sencha Touch, this allows a smartphone app to be developed with just HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

PWA

Building a high-quality Progressive Web App has incredible benefits, making it easy to delight your users, grow engagement and increase conversions.It is intended to work on any platform that uses a standards-compliant browser.

Sencha Touch

Sencha Touch 2, a high-performance HTML5 mobile application framework, is the cornerstone of the Sencha HTML5 platform. Built for enabling world-class user experiences, Sencha Touch 2 is the only framework that enables developers to build fast and impressive apps that work on iOS, Android, BlackBerry, Kindle Fire, and more.

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