VietMX Staff asked 3 years ago
Apache Cordova is an open source framework that enables web developers to use their HTML, CSS, and JavaScript content to create a native application for a variety of mobile platforms.
Used for hybrid development in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, Ionic allows to quickly create powerful and beautifully designed mobile apps that can be deployed through Cordova. Ionic wraps all Cordova commands and lets you work with any Cordova plugin or additional package. Along with it, you have the following three advantages over Cordova-only development: 1. Slick UI and UX – Ionic is a perfect fit for the easy and fast development of a simple but trendy design with everything you may need already included in the framework kit. 2. A More Convenient Development Process – The ‘serve’ feature is present in both Ionic and Cordova and allows developers to access an HTTP-server to test the application code in a desktop browser. However, working with ‘cordova-serve’ is rather inconvenient as it doesn’t let you launch the test from your initial www-folder and forces you to create an app build first. 3. Higher Performance of the Final Product – Compared to Cordova-built apps, the Ionic code creates more powerful and higher performing applications. With jqLite, a fraction of jQuery, it takes a minimal DOM manipulation, and native hardware acceleration is enough. Ionic optimizes animation effects and tunes up the GPU work to achieve the best processing time.
