{"id":4271,"date":"2011-04-30T20:32:29","date_gmt":"2011-04-30T19:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/4271-dreamweaver-cs5-5-phonegap-apps-performance-issues-on-android.html"},"modified":"2011-04-30T20:32:29","modified_gmt":"2011-04-30T19:32:29","slug":"dreamweaver-cs5-5-phonegap-apps-performance-issues-on-android","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/4271-dreamweaver-cs5-5-phonegap-apps-performance-issues-on-android.html","title":{"rendered":"Dreamweaver CS5.5 PhoneGap apps: performance issues on Android"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a follow-on from my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/4261-hands-on-building-a-phonegap-app-with-dreamweaver-5-5.html\">earlier post<\/a> about building a simple PhoneGap app using Adobe Dreamweaver CS5.5. I built it on Windows targeting Android. I liked the development experience up to the point of trying the app: it looks great, but performance is terrible. That is, you tap a button and there is a perceptible pause before the app responds. It is worse in the emulator than on my HTC Desire, but still poor.<\/p>\n<p>I had thought it was a configuration setting \u2013 though Dreamweaver makes it rather hard to access the build settings \u2013 but I am now wondering if jQuery mobile plus PhoneGap is just too demanding for most Android devices out there right now. Admittedly my Desire is a year or so old now. See <a href=\"http:\/\/forum.jquery.com\/topic\/jquery-mobile-on-android-w-phonegap\" target=\"_blank\">this thread<\/a> for example:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>JQuery Mobile on Android is definitely slow. (Tested A2 and A3Pre on Samsung Galaxy S, HTC Desire, ZTE Blade (edit: 2.2 Froyo) &#8211; with PhoneGap, stock browser, Opera Mobile) <\/p>\n<p>Something has to be done. The experience is low quality.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It is worth noting that PhoneGap is not yet a version 1.0 release \u2013 I was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/4208-native-apps-better-than-web-apps-thats-silly-talk-says-phonegap-president.html\" target=\"_blank\">told<\/a> it may be done by July. Further, you do not have to use jQuery Mobile with it in Dreamweaver; it just happens to provide a great set of user interface widgets. It may be better on Apple iOS; I have not tried that yet.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, this looks like a significant issue if you planning to dive in and deliver Android apps using the tools in the new Dreamweaver.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a follow-on from my earlier post about building a simple PhoneGap app using Adobe Dreamweaver CS5.5. I built it on Windows targeting Android. I liked the development experience up to the point of trying the app: it looks great, but performance is terrible. That is, you tap a button and there is a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/4271-dreamweaver-cs5-5-phonegap-apps-performance-issues-on-android.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dreamweaver CS5.5 PhoneGap apps: performance issues on Android<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,26,50,67,80,96],"tags":[123,143,460,499,514,523,719],"class_list":["post-4271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adobe","category-development","category-javascript","category-professional","category-software-development","category-web-authoring","tag-adobe","tag-android","tag-htc-desire","tag-ios","tag-javascript","tag-jquery-mobile","tag-phonegap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}