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laxx:
I do not agree. Not especially with the advent of phonegap. Developing is not just for the fun of it, at least not to people who intend to become relevent in the world of apps and eventually in the tech world. I believe both will remain. And developers will choose whichever they deem perfect for whatever purpose they're interested in. HTML5 has obviously come to stay. The support for it has been like wildfire. Even Adobe had to buy phonegap because they saw something. We native language dudes tend to look down on peeps that code with html5 and the likes for mobiles. But frankly the world doesn't care. All the world wants is to open a great app on their device and use it. The language or style by which it was built is immaterial.

Phonegap is crap on steriods. It cant be used for all apps and its performance suffers in some apps. I have used both approaches. I only use phonegap on cheap budget apps. If client can afford native i always recommend that.

What do you guys mean by Native, like using NDK for C++ apps on android instead of basic SDK apps? Or native as in run on the system and not via some browser? in which case the SDK android apps will also count as native and so as any other java app or VM based app

Borwe:
What do you guys mean by Native, like using NDK for C++ apps on android instead of basic SDK apps? Or native as in run on the system and not via some browser? in which case the SDK android apps will also count as native and so as any other java app or VM based app

Native means the official SDK for the platform, whether it be NDK or SDK for android or Objective C (IOS SDK),or Blackberry Java,Blackberry 10 SDK, Blackberry Webworks is not native(It uses a webkit(browser) as runtime)). etc.

seunthomas:
Native means the official SDK for the platform, whether it be NDK or SDK for android or Objective C (IOS SDK),or Blackberry Java,Blackberry 10 SDK, Blackberry Webworks is not native(It uses a webkit(browser) as runtime)). etc.

So anything thats on a browser isn't native to you? EG: Online java games EG RuneScape?

We are talking more about devices.
For example an Android device has the Android SDK(native) made by Android/Google themselves. But web developers can use HTML5, css and Javascript and use something like Phonegap(not native) made by Adobe to build apps for it.

Similarly a BBOS phone, for example, has the BlackBerry Java SDK (native) made by BlackBerry themselves. But web developers can decide to use Webworks (HTML5, CSS and Javascript). The difference is RIM actually created a platform that makes it easier to build apps using HTML5 and this platform is Webworks. But Webworks still uses Cordova/Phonegap by Adobe. BlackBerry further created Cordova/Phonegap plugins like a boy. is to make our Webworks apps look more like native apps.

Borwe:
So anything thats on a browser isn't native to you? EG: Online java games EG RuneScape?