Likelihood to Recommend If you want to teach your team or students how to program and learn programming languages, you would not want to utilize Phone Gap software. The Phone Gap software creates an easy fix to avoid learning every programming language for mobile devices. This creates a learning curve for some programmers because they no longer need to learn every language to be successful. However, for personal growth, this could pose an issue if programmers need to change jobs and are only capable of programming in web languages and then translate them using Phone Gap. Adobe Phone Gap works wonderfully for what our company uses it for. We use it because we have app launch deadlines and our programmers are invested in the company; therefore, they are aware that output is our goal, not actually learning the various languages, but more making sure the client is happy
Read full review Android Studio is a great mobile development IDE. I have found it is the best for both Android and Flutter development. It is created by JetBrains, so any developer used to their products, such as
IntelliJ IDEA , will find themselves right at home with this IDE. It is very intuitive so it is a good choice for people needing to learn an IDE quickly.
Read full review Pros Business Application like payment collection, application for salesperson etc. Used for developing the mobile application that needs to be developed faster with the same User Experience on both iOS and Android. Read full review Support for developing in either the emulator or a device means I can quickly diagnose platform specific issues The support for Kotlin and Java is stellar, with projects easily containing both types of code with ease Hot reload support means that I can quickly test changes without waiting for a length build and optimization process Excellent cross platform support means I can develop on macOS, Windows, or Linux without losing functionality between platforms Read full review Cons I would like to see the ability to write mobile applications using SWIFT and then use Phone Gap software or plug-ins to be able to transfer the iOS language into the Android language or to Java, CSS and HTML. We've experienced errors when transferring from one language to another. We worked on solving the issue and then had to simply adjust the native language and functionality for it to work. I have a team of graphic designers who would be able to like to assist in building of the apps but they are very limited, so perhaps adding functionality like a wix or weebly where there are options given that can drag and drop so marketing teams can support development. Read full review Android Studio needs a very high amount of RAM and a high-end processor to run smoothly, which can't be affordable for everyone. Updates in Gradle files can sometimes come up with a hectic improvement in whole code, which can lead us to improve some code and consume precious time. Multitasking is very difficult in Android Studio due to its heavy consumption of resources. Read full review Support Rating Overall support for Android Studio is quite good. As the project is maintained by Google itself, frequent updates are usually made to Android Studio to keep the IDE update and bug-free. Many community forums are also available to help developers across the world if they face any issue.
Read full review Alternatives Considered We have not found competitors to Adobe Phone Gap that allows us to be able to code and transfer into alternative languages. The only alternative is to write in the languages required by apple and google in order to launch our apps on their devices and in their app stores. Using Phone Gap removes the learning curve of needing to write in each individual language and therefore would beat the competition because from what we have found and been recommended, there is no alternative to Adobe Phone Gap that is worth pursuing
Read full review Android Studio is the best possible offering to make android based apps. It's a product by Google and the official integrated development environment for android app development. That's why it is able to offer the easiest to learn and simplest coding environment to developers. But it needs higher performance and is at times slower as compared to
Flutter , etc. So that's the only drawback, but overall it's better than most tools for app development.
Read full review Return on Investment Time to market is improved with the introduction of Phone Gap. Less dependency on Native programmers to develop mobile applications. Programmers with HTML, Javascript & CSS skills can directly contribute to mobile application development. Read full review The APPs developed with ANDROID STUDIO take a long time to develop, however this extra expense is compensated by the low rate of claims that our technical service must attend. By working with native code, you do not depend on external library providers and their associated cost. Jose Perri Director of Engineering and Product Development
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