We performed a comparison between Axway Appcelerator and Ionic based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about OutSystems, Mendix, Salesforce and others in Mobile Development Platforms."Enables me to use the same web technology to develop cross-platform native apps. The cloud-based one-click app build system is a valuable feature as well."
"What I like the most about Ionic is live reloading, which enables us to develop new features without having to build the application again and re-check the functionality."
"Being able to have one set of code is valuable. I don't have to recode for different platforms. I don't have to recode for Xcode, Angular, or Android. So, the biggest feature for me is that it's a hybrid system, and I can have one set of code, and then the tool sets that are in there convert my code for Xcode or Play Store. It makes work a lot easier."
"The most valuable feature is the one code deployed to all solutions, which means you do not need to have multiple teams."
"The most valuable feature of Ionic is the ease of use and the simple connection of the applications. Additionally, the documentation is good in the Ionic application, and beginners can easily learn and download their own application using Ionic. Everyone can easily switch out, their domain, from native applications to hybrid applications."
"I like that I can place the code and escalate data storage. I also like that it's user-friendly. Nothing is complex in Ionic."
"Ionic's best features are its hybrid app development, design, and tags."
"It's very flexible for UI development."
"Ionic is easy to upgrade and is helpful for design purposes. It also is quite common and easy to use. It is a very reliable application. It's easy to write on and print. The UI is easy to use as well. My organization chose to go with Ionic because we can access both Android and iOS applications."
"It would be awesome if they would work on improving the speed of the app building process."
"Scalability is not so good if you have a complex UX."
"It would be good if the mobile version uses something other than JavaScript and HTML."
"As a developer, I would say one of the improvements is more plugins."
"Ionic's UI component doesn't always look like the native mobile app."
"Ionic is a cross-platform framework, so when we compare Ionic with native Android and iOS, we can see the drawbacks. For example, if you need to work on very high-level aspects of an application such as animation, even if everything else is not putting load on the app, you will still see high load from the server side."
"There could be better support for augmented reality and other things. Geolocation and background app activity are some of the things that are a little more clumsy at the moment and could be improved."
"There is a lack of a community environment."
"It would be better if it had a speed niche system. There are a lot of things we need that weren't in the latest version. But I think they will be adding something."
"The navigation within this solution could be improved; it is currently quite complicated to move through the different tabs."
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Axway Appcelerator is ranked 17th in Mobile Development Platforms while Ionic is ranked 5th in Mobile Development Platforms with 14 reviews. Axway Appcelerator is rated 6.2, while Ionic is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Axway Appcelerator writes "Good, but steep "Getting started"". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Ionic writes "Great user acceptance and reliability, multiple teams not required, with prompt customer service". Axway Appcelerator is most compared with DSI Digital Supply Chain Platform, whereas Ionic is most compared with Xamarin Platform, Appium, OutSystems, Appzillon Digital Platform and Mendix.
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