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PhoneGap
Raised as a usability problem by 32 people on Hacker News over 9 years (2010–2018), in 23 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads in the last 5 years.
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HTML-wrapper apps run at about 3fps and feel unresponsiveUnreviewed
20102026- Apps built with HTML wrappers run at about 3fps and feel unresponsive2018-07-04
- Performance may be poor for complex UIs; existing frameworks too slow, forcing pure JS2013-11-13
- HTML-based app UI feels close but not quite right; responsiveness and fluidity fall short of native2013-05-18
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 32 complaints
- Apps built with HTML wrappers run at about 3fps and feel unresponsive2018-07-04
- UI breaks easily with button presses; drawer won't show last row, scrolling is choppy2016-11-27
- Web views block pinch-to-zoom, frustrating users2016-11-27
- Cross-platform apps feel off to users, with non-native navigation, animations and margins2016-11-26
- Toolchain setup requires guessing magic commands and hoping things work2016-11-26
- Native-feeling swipe, scroll and pull-to-refresh gestures must be hand-coded in JavaScript2016-11-26
- Apps become slow to start and laggy as the codebase grows2016-05-11
- App interfaces feel wrong and do not behave as users expect2015-12-01
- Apps run slowly, plugins are messy, and builds fail without warning2014-09-03
- No visible way to close the window or enter a different address, forcing an app reinstall2014-04-25
- Slider widgets are sloppy and freeze on a mid-range phone2014-01-09
- On-screen keyboard doesn't pop up when tapping text fields2013-12-04
- Swipe interactions in the HTML5 calendar app perform horribly on an iPhone 52013-11-29
- Performance may be poor for complex UIs; existing frameworks too slow, forcing pure JS2013-11-13
- HTML-based app UI feels close but not quite right; responsiveness and fluidity fall short of native2013-05-18
- Web-built interfaces behave differently from native UI elements, so users' expectations are not met2013-05-12
- Hybrid apps are slow and render quirkily, so they don't feel native2012-09-02
- Hard to get started with, based on the commenter's last attempt2012-07-24
- Executable sits in a folder that can't be copied or symlinked, making app creation awkward2012-07-21
- Touch input responds with noticeable latency and scrolling images is laggy and choppy2012-07-21
- Button taps cause a noticeable delay before the app responds2012-07-20
- HTML-based apps are laggy and slow to start on mobile devices2012-06-06
- Commenter couldn't figure out how to use the vouchers2012-06-06
- Android app scrolling is choppy with noticeable delay before buttons respond2012-05-10
- No JavaScript error logging, so bugs cause silent unresponsiveness that is hard to track down2012-04-12
- Shows an 'account created, check your email' message to visitors who never signed up2012-01-03
- Loses hardware buttons and native menus, forcing limited screen space menus and worse usability2011-09-30
- Cross-platform app looked native but did not feel right to use2011-04-29
- Debugging is painful and documentation gives little help, so the page wouldn't show2011-02-10
- Scrolling behaves badly and doesn't feel right in the app2011-02-10
- App extremely slow and unresponsive to taps on an iPhone 3G2010-10-27
- App runs too slowly, forcing the author to drop features2010-10-27