bspates

So a few years back I wrote a few simplistic mobile applications for android using the sdk. I was new to the programming world and was excited enough by novelty to power through the verbose nature of the library. In the two years since I last touched android I have been working as a full stack developer; mostly in JS. Today I attempted to dive back into android only to be jarred by the over-complexity of its sdk. Needing to instantiate four managers to get one piece of data was something I haven't experienced in awhile, and it got me thinking. Has the performance of JS mobile apps(created with apache cordova or whatever) reached a tipping point where non graphic intensive apps are close to indistinguishable from native?