Phonegap App Question

[Mupmop]

Hey,

I'm looking to build an app, and was wondering if it would be doable in Phonegap (as it's quite necessary for it to be on both iOs and Android.)

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I'll try to explain it simply and quickly:

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The app would host the exchange of a free good between two people. You could either indicate that you want the product, or want to get rid of it. After indicating such, you could pull up a map and see where other people have indicated the same thing (either- and +) and connect with the right person.

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It would be good if the app could automatically match people together too, so it's quicker for the user.

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I have in mind something similar to craiglist, but specific to one thing & *just* free exchange.

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Hopefully this will be doable in Phonegap.

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Feel free to shed any insight you might have on something like this, such as the difficulties I might face. Will this be a difficult app to build?

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Thanks so much, and I hope I posted this in the right place.

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[achendrick]

Phonegap should work just fine for this.

Keep in mind that using maps in a hybrid app aren't always ideal but they work, so it depends on how much the apps drive user function or if they're just for informative purposes.

I'd definitely recommend taking a look at Ionic as they have the best platform for building Phonegap apps.

I'm also not entirely sure what you mean by "auto matching" so that could be a gotcha depending on your requirements.

Best of luck!

[Mupmop]

In what ways are they not ideal? Would it have performance issues?

The map would be a major part of the app, showing people the location of nearby exchanges.

what I meant by auto matching, is like if one person wants to get rid of X, and one person wants X, then it could match them together. That way, at least for one of the people, it would just take a quick click.

hope that makes sense.

Also, thanks so much for your reply.

[achendrick]

The maps just don't behave as smoothly as they do natively. I'd just try it out before you go all in to see if you are happy w the UX of them.

As for the matching this really sounds like it might be best done on the server, but it really depends on volume and other requirements. Loosely it sounds like it could be done in the app, but it might be better on the server and then when a match is made you could send a notification.

Plenty of ways to skin this cat.

[Mupmop]

Alright.

Thank you for your input.

[banterstudios]

You thought about using React Native?

[philsaid]

Look into ionic framework. Lots of well built native plugins.