Mobile frameworks comparison

What we will see
- Phonegap/cordova
- jQueryMobile
- SenchaTouch
- Twitter Bootstrap
- Topcoat
- Ionic
- Intel AppFramework
Cordova
Cordova = opensource heart of Phonegap
It makes possible to use native functionality,
from webapps.
No UI, but most of the existing frameworks use it.

Phonegap
Phonegap is to Cordova
what
Chrome is to Chromium.
A (enhanced) proprietary build
of an opensource project

jQuery Mobile
This is a fullstack framework build on top of jQuery
- Open-source
- Good support, community
- Cross support (Android, iOs, Blackberry, etc.)
- Theme roller
-
Native feeling: true apps not websites
jQuery Mobile
Mostly based on data- attributes,
to render specific UI components
Sencha Touch
Framework full-stack, from Sencha Foundation
- Nice Support
- Lot of functionnalities
- Almost Stable
- Painful to learn
- All code is only Javascript, even for UI
- Awesome Fastbook story
Native feel

Twitter Bootstrap
Very popular in website design
It's a set of web resources to get nice UI,
and rich components
It automatically manage media-queries
Almost nothing to do!
Use it for responsive sites
Topcoat
This is a set of CSS resources from Adobe
Use snippets to get rich components
Designed to be super-fast
Use it for responsive sites
Ionic
(<3)
Based on AngularJS
Top UI components pixels-perfects
Build for native feeling apps
...
Awesome

Intel AppFramework
Fullstack from Intel, for native feel!