Ionic is suitable for what types of applications?

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The Ionic Framework is indicated for what types of applications? I’ve been doing some research on the plugins of Cordova, seems to give much problem in cross platform development, some plugins do not work well for the IOS and Windows Phone? The best option is to go native?

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Ionic is widely used for applications that do not require much animation or graphics processing. I use a lot for applications like virtual store, chat, portifolio, cataloging, etc. I know several companies that are migrating from native development to hybrid platforms. First for its ease in maintenance and development, second for its maturity and reliability nowadays.

  • And for more robust applications that consume most of the device’s native features, such as GPS, push, contacts, audio capture and etc... Do you think it pays to use the framework or go native? And our biggest problem would be to use a SOAP+XML webservice, and I saw that for that I would have to do an xml to json conversion. @Fabio Nobre

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    This depends a lot, I particularly prefer native, as it has more control over the code and novelties released in the device’s SDK, has more libraries and your application will be lighter.. But of course this should be taking into account the complexity of the project, if it is something simple I see no problem when using the software cross Platform

  • Thank you @Marcogiovanni for clarifying, what project we will develop it is very complex, and I was to do tests on native resources using Ionic. But yet we are coming to the conclusion that the best option will be to go native.

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Some mobile native features are not yet available in the Cordova Apache libraries, if your project does not make use of any background. Super recommend! With regard to performance, I have nothing to complain about! There is a crosswalk library that promises to improve performance of android phones from 4 to 4.4 I make use of them.

An important piece of information is that some libraries have different implementations for each platform so you might have heard that someone had a problem with this or that Mobile OS, but in terms of rules, see the documentation that is not wrong.

Good luck!

  • I could mention what are these features that are not available in Cordova?

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Ionic is suitable for relatively simpler applications. For example, if you try to create something similar to an Instagram or Facebook, you will have performance problems in Ionic because of the various import needed among others.

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