jquery mobile or HTML5 app

Question

I'm trying to build an application which must be cross platform and must work like a native android app. I have built apps on phonegap but never i have got a native app like feeling. Is there is a framework or anything of that sort which might help me to achieve this? So far i have used

• Jquery mobile, phonegap, appcelerator, trigger.io

Any advice suggestions and help are welcome. And also i got this feeling or need when i came across this http://www.aldomatic.com/jqm/fb-menu-style/index.html and i wanted to build a facebook like menu which feels more like native but it should be HTML5 based app.

Answer 1

Unfortunately I cant think of any mobile web framework that will provide you full Android look and feel. There's only iOS look a like framework called Kendo UI.

Best thing you can do is stick with jQuery Mobile and use a theme that has a closest resemblance to a native Android look and feel.

There are 2 of them, some older and some newer:

1. https://github.com/enathu/jqmobile-android-holo-light-theme (Android 4 look)

2. https://github.com/jjoe64/jquery-mobile-android-theme (Android 2.X look)

Also jQuery mobile 1.3 has a sliding panel you showed us in your link. Even better, sliding panel used in your link is the jQuery Mobile panel.