High Performance Web Application Framework

Question

I'm trying to build a web app that is as responsive as a native Android App. Is that even possible?

We tried PhoneGap and SproutCore and it is not responsive enough. Are there better alternatives? I mean how does, for example, AngularJs compare to SproutCore in terms of visual and all-around performance?

Answer 1

Angular and Topcoat seem to be working pretty good together. But I think ratchet framework is going to develop into something much better. It's fast and has lots of mobile like components. There is also a nice youtube presentation about the possibilities from the first ng-conf, check that out too.

Answer 2

You won't find today an out-of-the-box framework to write HTML/JS mobile applications as fast as native ones. It's possible to obtain very decent performances with webapps, but for this you'll have to do some optimizations by yourself. At least, that's the conclusion I draw after reading this article from Sencha to have an idea about how they wrote a fast facebook mobile app clone, using their Framework.

Angular with some tuning as described by Scalyr may be very fast. Iconics framework could be of some interest for you too, as long as you limit your app to recent OS.

Be aware that performances with Android Dolphin web browser will always be disappointing compared to what you can get on iOS or with Chrome on more recent of Android.