Pros/cons of Kendo UI Mobile vs PhoneGap vs Native for a corporate mobile app

Question

Our software development team has been assigned a task to develop a new internal corporate HTML5 mobile application to manage specific business processes and we've been given a task to conduct a research on various existing mobile web technologies and to decide on the best technology to be used for the implementation.

We need to choose one HTML5/Javascript library that we all are going to use and our team leader is pushing for using Kendo UI Mobile library for the project, however one of senior software engineers insists that we have to stick with PhoneGap. A few developers also had suggestions to use Native (i.e. developing an Android native app) instead as opposed to a web app.

I am fairly new to the area of mobile app development and not familiar with those technologies, however have been asked to find out the advantages/disadvantages of those frameworks and how they compare to each other. I was just wondering if anyone who is experienced in using those libraries could briefly outline the main distinctive key features of those frameworks and how they differ from each other (i.e. advantages/disadvantages) and whether any one of them is superior to another and would be more preferable in a particular situation?

Or maybe are there any other mobile web frameworks that would be worth looking into and what are their benefits?

Any reply would be much appreciated!

Thanks in advance, Alex

Answer 1

Kendo is a great framework to go with for your mobile or web application.The support provided is great and you can achive native like feel with kendo UI.I'll leave you a link to the mobile app developed using kendo

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.payoda.Insurance

this app has been released in IOS,android and windows store.

Phonegap and cordova are technologies used to build the app developed using kendo or sencha etc.I suggest you develop app using kendo and build it using phonegap.

In native apps you have to code for each platform.Hybrid apps developed using Kendo requires coding once and can be deployed in all platforms