Difference of Native packaging between Sencha touch2 and PhoneGap

Question

What is the difference of native packaging between Sencha touch2 and PhoneGap?

Many people use PhoneGap to natively package app based on Sencha touch, but I find tha

Answer 1

I had the same questions, I agree it's a real mess at first glance. Here is a very good article that "clears up confusion" quite well.

To quote the gist of the article:

Sencha Touch (and jQuery Mobile) are mobile web frameworks. You can use these technologies to create web-based, mobile apps. They don’t have access to any native API’s.

You can use Sencha Touch and jQuery Mobile inside both PhoneGap and Titanium. If you decide your html/js is cool as a native app too, you can use either PhoneGap or Titanium to wrap a browser around your app and put it in the app store or marketplace. This is where, I think, the confusion comes. Putting your Sencha Touch or jQuery Mobile apps in a native wrapper doesn’t make it a native app. It makes it appear as if it is a native app. You might get some extra functionality from PhoneGap or Titanium API’s, but it’s still not necessarily a ‘native’ app. It’s a web app running locally on the device. It’s a great way to use web technologies inside a native-like area.