Investigate cross platform solution

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Options:

HTML / Javascript / CSS

• Cordova
• PhoneGap
• Sencha
• Appcelerator
• Ionic

Native

• Xamarin

Other

• React Native

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Decided to go with:

• Ionic 2.0 RC 0 http://blog.ionic.io/announcing-the-ionic-2-release-candidate/

Reasoning:

• Its free (as in beer)
• Its free (as in freedom)
• Supports multiple deployment targets (Android, iOS and more)
• Technology is fairly accessible (HTML, Javascript, Angular 2)
• Should be future proof (as much as anything can be), while also support older systems (again, as much as anything can or should be). Made particularly possible by Angular 2 being finalized.
• Performance is not a mission critical factor, the kinds of things we are doing are well suited for ionic/cordova applications; and anything which may not be can be written as a native plugin
• Ionic provides tools above and beyond cordova which accelerates development and adds a proportionate amount of hipstertude
• Potentially update on-the-fly with Ionic Deploy