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User's don't care if you use native or HTML5 as long as you get them what they need.

One of the major problem with HTML5 is not HTML5/JS but how you we are trying to use those. We want to use all the libraries and frameworks. Backbone, AngularJS, bootstrap are good but using those on mobile will slow down your app. Also there is this mentality that you can only have good interaction if you build 100% client side rendering.

Everyone thinks that rendering on client will be faster as we are only sending JSON and html templates are cached. They should do compare and see if JSON that they are sending is really lighter then rendered HTML. Most of the time I found that after gzip, HTML is smaller compare to JSON.

Browser wise, Android is lagging behind when it comes to transitions. Its getting better but still not good as Safari or IE on WP8. Also Samsung is always uses wrong version of android browser. Even on galaxy S4, they screwed up big time (Browser on S3 was better than S4).

I build hacker news mobile client using HTML5, and I do have 4.5 star ratings on the both app stores.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.premii.hn

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hacker-news-yc/id713733435

or Try it on your browser

http://hn.premii.com/




I started working on this but no time.

http://dn.premii.com/ - Designer News For mobile. Lot of animations and works on Android, Safari on iOS and IE10+ on WP8.


I'm very impressed by the performance on both your DN and HN clients. Usually everything web lags a lot using the stock browser on my Galaxy S3 but these are very smooth. What's your secret?




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