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On iOS Cordova works great, not so great on Android (I'm talking about game programming obviously) especially on Android 4.4.

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Works great? Show me some apps please! They all are garbage compared to native imho. Not even really usable, again, in my opinion. I wouldn't recommend Cordova for anything at this point, not because of Cordova per se but rather because of the state of HTML5 on these devices. And I have built a lot of Cordova apps because clients demanded it; now we downright refuse as it's bad for your portfolio to do so. Even if it looks nice it will take weeks (months) to get it working really smooth (stuff you get for free native) and then it breaks suddenly because of some update (especially on Android, but also on iOS, for instance after the 7 update) and you are right back in hell. For every app I have seen which was 'ok' on Cordova you could build it great 3 times native for ANdroid,iOS and WP8 in less time.

I've built an app that worked well with Cordova: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.audreyt.di... ( Source: https://github.com/g0v/moedict-app/ ; Context: http://g0v.asia/tw/#Q1.2 ).

A dictionary — being text-based, with very few animations, and no background soundtracks — avoided most of mobile-platform-specific issues.

I've only said Cordova works great on iOS.

It doesn't work so great on Android, but I wouldn't go so far as saying that every Cordova app is garbage :). For some apps it works reasonably well, for others simply doesn't work.

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