Ionic/AngularJS
DEVICE/BROWSER SUPPORT +
- official Documentation
- iOS 6+ 96% of all devices
- Android 4.1+ 60% of all devices
- adaptations possible
- Windows Phone (n. A.)
access to HTML/CSS ++
- complete Control
- real HTML
- Web Components
- styling with Classes
- fast/easy adaptations
Tooling 0
- no tooling in Ionic
- good tooling from yeoman
- easy customizable
Testing ++
- easy unit testing with Karma
- continuos testing
- ready to use end to end testing with Protractor
- really accessible testing
- simple setup
components +
- many ionic ui-components
- angular-components are great
- some basic things are missing
- e.g. simple tabs
- straight forward usage
performance ++
- looks very smooth
- angular has awesome speed
- both look very stable
- although ionic is in alpha
- 17mb memory usage
learning curve -
- very hight curve
- getting started is not easy
- code style is different
- code in html looks weird
- (in the beginning)
- good tutorials
community ++
- good angular docs
- Ionic docs are a bit lousy
- community is vert active
- angularJS
- ionic
- 2500 Stars on github
- 84 open 322 closed issues on github
- no Stackoverflow topics
- Ionic Forum
development activity/transparency ++
delivered / demo apps +
- some examples with basic apps
- external guys did apps
- e.g. real time chat with firebase
- no apps in app stores
PROS
- complete control over html
- easy unit testing
- extensibility is very good (directives, services, etc.)
- big angular community
- performance
Cons
- high learning curve of angular
- syntax differs much to other 'common' js
- no tooling with ionic
- no support for lower android versions ( < 4.1)
Comparison Table
| OpenUI5 | TMP2 | Ionic | |
|---|---|---|---|
| device/browser support | ++ | + | + |
| access html/css | -- | - | ++ |
| tooling | -- | ++ | 0 |
| testing | -- | 0 | ++ |
| components | 0 | + | + |
| performance | + | -- | ++ |
| learning curve | -- | + | - |
| community | -- | 0 | ++ |
| development activity/transparency | -- | + | ++ |
| delivered/demoapps | - | 0 | + |
Sample APP
