A mobile website is similar to any other websites that are built on browser-based pages supported by HTML and the CSS standard. Mobile websites are designed for small-size screens using media queries (defining separate design property) and also some of them have specific features for mobiles like click to call or location-based functionalities. But again people do not want to open a browser, type in a URL and wait for data to be rendered them in the browser. They rather want to use a mobile application which they can download once and use whenever they want. There are three options for developing a mobile application namely Web, native and hybrid applications. A mobile app is the best of both worlds – native and web apps. Hybrid apps are becoming famous amongst the developers because they have to code apps for once and then run them on any platform with no extra coding.
Ionic
Ionic is an open-source framework for HTML5 mobile applications that can be implemented for hybrid mobile application development. In addition, it also supports HTML5 and CSS3 friendly modern browsers. The startup application is provided with some template options which a developer finds easy to get started with Ionic is widely considered as the pioneer of mobile app frameworks.It requires no third-party integration with JS library. To make a big interactive app, it can be clubbed with Angular.js both frameworks together work very well.
Angular.js
Angular is an open – source front-end JavaScript framework released in June 2012 (initially developed in 2009) by Misko Hevery (a Google employee) and currently maintained by Google. The framework became famous after becoming a part of Google offerings. Moreover, it supports designing web applications. Angular is suitable for large company website s as well as for small and light enterprises. Angular is pretty much the perfect solution for data binding. Data binding in Angular apps involves the automated synchronization of data amongst the model (or customer input source) and the “view”. When the model changes, the view rejects the change and vice versa. By cutting short multiple steps, Angular is a highly attractive entity.
PhoneGap
PhoneGap is one of the most widely used frameworks, based upon Cordova. Mobile’s general inbuilt functions like camera, location, contacts etc can be connected with collections of APIs. PhoneGap community also has an incredible support team.
Apache Cordova
Apache Cordova is known as open source application development framework. This allows the developer to use web standard technologies like HTML, CSS and JavaScript. It is also known as a package for native applications that export the JavaScript API’s. It can also be referred as an engine that powers PhoneGap. Native device capabilities like GPS, Camera etc cannot be used by traditional web applications. These limitations are overcome by Cordova inbuilt plugins.
Onsen UI
Onsen UI works great with Monaca. Monaca offers a powerful command-line tool and desktop app to simplify complicated tasks. You can also use the Monaca Debugger to test your apps on the device, including live-reload to help speed up your development. And when you’re ready to release, Monaca builds your Onsen UI app in the cloud, ready to upload to the app stores.