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My Opinion on Onsen UI

written by grex on 2018-03-08 08:05:01

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Overall Opinion: Rather than forcing developers to work with Android and iOS devices individually, Onsen UI allows anyone to turn apps made out of simple HTML tags into native code. This provides a much better user experience for those who download the apps in the future, since coding them in this way ensures they behave how programs on said platform are supposed to behave. Android and iOS devices work with a completely different set of gestures from one another, but Onsen UI makes sure that the user interface supports only the gestures expected on the user's device. Onsen UI comes with a library called Monaca that allows developers to use it for hybrid app development. It converts HTML5 and JavaScript code into a native app for Android or iOS devices. Those who want to develop apps without having to install SDKs will find it extremely useful, especially if they write code in Microsoft Windows. Since Windows doesn't work with all of the POSIX calls that modern mobile devices require, Monaca libraries from the Onsen UI package is probably the easiest way to support this sort of development. Those who are coding from Linux boxes won't have to worry about this. Onsen UI works well for programmers who work from Linux, macOS or any other Unix-based operating system with the appropriate SDK installed. Individuals on these operating systems can use any of the major terminal text editors to write code for the Onsen UI platform. Regardless of whether vi, vim, nano or emacs comes with the developer's distribution, all of these should be supported. Since the Cygwin DLL as well as the Windows Subsystem for Linux both support these editors, Windows codes using a Unix subsystem won't have any problem coding apps that use Onsen UI either.

Pros: Onsen UI is mostly built on free and open-source code, which allows easy reproduction Doesn't force any type of DRM on apps developed with it Compiles JavaScript and HTML5 code without forcing developers to write it in a specific way Offers end users the native experience they expect from apps on their devices

Cons: Monaca is a commercial service, though the version that comes with Onsen UI starts out free Doesn't come with a free debugger, which means developers have to look at each line of code individually Those working with code designed to run on iPhone X devices will have to optimize it first Onsen UI simulates most features rather than implements them natively, which could make certain actions run more slowly on some older devices

grex is using Onsen UI every other week recently.

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