kandi vs. NativeScript

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
kandi
Score 9.5 out of 10
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kandi (pronounced like 'candy') is a platform that helps developers create applications faster by reusing the right libraries, code snippets, packages, APIs, and cloud functions. kandi makes it easier for developers by analyzing over 430 million knowledge items across all repositories, cloud and information sources and applying AI to help the developer choose the apt component that fits their need across technology, framework, domain, security, quality, support, license, and many…N/A
NativeScript
Score 4.8 out of 10
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NativeScript is an open source framework that allows you to create native iOS and Android apps, with one codebase, using ​the web skills you already have (JavaScript and CSS) and ​the libraries you already love​.N/A
Pricing
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kandiNativeScript
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsIt's a free offeringThe NativeScript framework and CLI are completely free and open source. NativeScript Sidekick is a free download to improve developer productivity with optional paid tiers for power users.
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Small Businesses
Visual Studio
Visual Studio
Score 9.0 out of 10
Visual Studio
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Score 9.0 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Quickbase
Quickbase
Score 9.2 out of 10
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Quickbase
Score 9.2 out of 10
Enterprises
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Quickbase
Score 9.2 out of 10
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Score 9.2 out of 10
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User Ratings
kandiNativeScript
Likelihood to Recommend
9.5
(2 ratings)
4.8
(13 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
-
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1.0
(2 ratings)
User Testimonials
kandiNativeScript
Likelihood to Recommend
Open Weaver
If you use open source or open technology based custom application development, then kandi is a great place for you to find code snippets and libraries to build your use cases, extensions, migration and others
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Progress Software Corporation
I gotta be honest, after a PoC period, we choose to rewrite the whole application in a different cross-platform app. Our developers had to invest a lot of time and effort to debug a lot of plugin-related issues, which we needed to utilize the android mobile phone capabilities. QR reader, special visualizations, and fine-tuning were really hard and often resulted in writing native Android code instead of using the shared Angular code. In the end, we think that writing a standalone Android app and an Angular app would have been a better alternative, as the shared code base was so unreliable that it did not save us any time.
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Pros
Open Weaver
  • Easy to use
  • 1-click install solutions
  • open source
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Progress Software Corporation
  • True native app. The app uses native components and that is quite noticeable in the overall performance of the app. NativeScript is also awesome in the way we can access the native APIs, so we are never really constrained by the framework. If we need, we can just dive into the native APIs without leaving our environment and language (JS).
  • Cross-platform. Builds for Android and iOS. It deals with the platforms differences very well.
  • Support for Vue.js. Even though it is just a community effort, the NativeScript-Vue plugin is the best alternative to build native Apps with Vue.js. That was a major factor to go with NativeScript.
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Cons
Open Weaver
  • more kits
  • plug-in IDE
  • more number of projects
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Progress Software Corporation
  • The need to know the native Android and iOS APIs to access device hardware and other platform-specific functionality
  • Not all user interface components are available for free
  • NativeScript has no HTML and DOM, which requires some deep knowledge of different UI tools to be implemented instead
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Likelihood to Renew
Open Weaver
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Progress Software Corporation
The hybrid is ok but native is better for performance and the right use case I want to go for is the performance without dealing with too many development tools.
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Support Rating
Open Weaver
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Progress Software Corporation
The community support is excellent.
They have a slack community as well as a discourse forum
forum.nativescript.org
Both of these offer community driven support.
The forum is more for a threaded discussion. The slack community is more for a quick talk.
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Alternatives Considered
Open Weaver
Rather than searching for each library on GitHub, Kandi organizes it and produces the best libraries of a language and new libraries added to it regularly.
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Progress Software Corporation
Ionic Ionic is an excellent Angular-based framework for mobile, and it does give a lot of access to the native device api's. However, the technology is based on Cordova, which means the apps being built are just webviews, with html, css and JS all running on the UI thread, and potentially creating very slow experiences for users. NativeScript is a truly native solution, and so provides a faster user experience. ReactNative We evaluate ReactNative, and found it much the same as NativeScript. The main difference is that your JS is all written with React, while NativeScript lets you choose between normal JS, Angular, and Vue. For our team, Angular was the most appropriate choice.
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Return on Investment
Open Weaver
  • None
  • It is free to use
  • It is an open source platform which requires no purchases
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Progress Software Corporation
  • The poor quality of NativeScript documentation has the potential to weigh heavily on development timelines, budgets, and QA resources in a NEGATIVE manner.
  • The poor interoperability of NativeScript plugins can significantly increase development time.
  • The need to seek out professional instruction to learn how to use NativeScript effectively may become a burden on your budget.
  • The number of breaking changes between versions of NativeScript, may cause your development efforts to lag further behind the most recent releases of NativeScript and your other chosen environments than you are accustomed to.
  • NativeScript still does not support the latest major version of Angular. Any significant changes to the other environment components of your systems may hold you back even further while NativeScript plays catch-up.
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ScreenShots

kandi Screenshots

Screenshot of kandi helps develop applications faster through library and code snippets reuse. Developers can also develop incredible ideas from scratch with kandi kits and stay ahead on technology trends.Screenshot of kandi kits help develop applications for popular use cases from scratch. Through kandi, developers can also follow trending libraries, popular use cases, authors, learning resources and more across 500+ hot technology topics.Screenshot of With kandi developers build applications faster and better by reusing open-source components. We just didn’t stop at providing a platform where they can find millions of libraries and code snippets to reuse. We continuously take user feedback and tune our algorithms to recommend components that best suit the user’s needs and environments. We also recommend code snippets, install commands and FAQs that will help the developers build their applications. Further, we have implemented features to make executing complex solutions a 1-click for beginners and experienced developers. We have also added the ability for developers to stay ahead of complex technology trends in the digital and open source field. Together these capabilities help the developers jumpstart their application development.

NativeScript Screenshots

Screenshot of Example of a styled NativeScript list viewScreenshot of Charts and graphs available as part of NativeScript UIScreenshot of Groceries – the app you build as part of the getting started tutorialScreenshot of Leverage native mapping systems with NativeScript