I’ve got to build an app in 3 weeks that handles basic image editing and async requests. It’s gotta support both iOS and Android.

It’s also gotta scan barcodes.

What should I use?

Cordova?
Cordova+ionic?
Titanium?
Xamarin?
Dart/flutter?
Try and cram it through in native java/Kotlin and swift?
Something I’m missing?

The one that has the largesr package base available. Which in this case it would be native but it would take waaay too long to learn. Afaik cordova has a fuckload of packages man, so you might wsnt to look into that.

React Native is a great option as well. As for flutter it is awesome but lacking in a lot of stuff. One of my favorites is codename one, but it will require a lot of learning as well.

My friendly suggestion, look into R.N specially if you already know React and Js

@AleCx04 yea I may stick with that I honestly have to redo the current app bc it’s Cordova but it’s fucked. However I’m worried that I have to hack Cordova’s manifest to ship android apps due to sdk targeting and compatibility with versions of plugins.

That’s really more of a few years from now issue but I don’t love it.

@jeeper i see from your profile you are already a Node developer and by extension a Js developer. I think you will like the shift from cordova to R.N :) i know I did. I am rusty af in it since i only developed in it following a tutorial, but the experience was not bad at all. In the feature flutter may catch up i hope since it is really fun as well.

@AleCx04 alright I’m playing with react native and I’m liking it. Already seeing advantages over Cordova. Thanks for the suggestion I’ll let you know how it goes!

I built basic photo editing with help of Skia libraries. hope that help

I use quasar and I love it! Npm package quasar-cli

Hybrid framework on top of Cordova. Uses Vuejs for the UI.

We are using React Native in one of our projects and everything worked fine there. We also use real native code (java/swift) for our bluetooth manager :) You only have to carefully choose 3rd party frameworks as there are many buggy frameworks around there.