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It's usually pretty easy to tell Cordova apps from native apps. The quality is wildly different and they tend to "feel" wrong, even to users who aren't super technical.

I would never recommend that route unless you're on a shoestring (<$10k) budget.

Even then I'd recommend Flutter first.



This is a myth, repeating it amplify it but doesn't make it more true. Moreover Cordova is outdated and you should compare the current state of the art which is Ionic/Capacitor. Contrary to flutter it doesn't feel wrong and actually doesn't have big performance issues contrary to the former. The fastest 2D renderer (skia) is made for chromium and second class citizen such as flutter are doomed to be inferior, plus their human resources are lacking. Example of an not so old, non production-ready issue: https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/31138


It isn't a myth. I've seen examples of recently created Cordova apps that feel like broken web pages, not real mobile applications.

I suppose it would be possible to make one that isn't bad, but that seems like more effort than just making a native app in the first place.

It seems weird to say Cordova being a poor experience is a myth and then to say Flutter will always be bad. Flutter is already lightyears ahead of Cordova.

I don't know anyone shipping Capacitor projects, so can't really compare that.


> I don't know anyone shipping Capacitor projects, so can't really compare that.

as someone who was tasked with porting a cordova app to native (android), i can second this opinion (as a dev and user)

edit: sorry, i mistook "capacitor" or "cordova" (^_^;)




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