# Mobile programming **URL:** \ **Category:** General Chat\ **Created:** [September 8, 2016, 6:22pm UTC](https://www.phphelp.com/t/mobile-programming/25460 "2016-09-08T18:22:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![astonecipher](https://www.phphelp.com/user_avatar/www.phphelp.com/astonecipher/32/2797_2.png) [@astonecipher](https://www.phphelp.com/u/astonecipher)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2016, 6:22pm UTC](https://www.phphelp.com/t/mobile-programming/25460/1 "2016-09-08T18:22:30Z")
Anyone play with mobile development yet? Work has some in the pipe, but they want to use the ionic framework. Currently I am learning Xamarin, and like that it is true native. ---
**Author:** ![JimL](https://www.phphelp.com/user_avatar/www.phphelp.com/jiml/32/1842_2.png) [@JimL](https://www.phphelp.com/u/JimL)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2016, 7:12pm UTC](https://www.phphelp.com/t/mobile-programming/25460/2 "2016-09-08T19:12:27Z")
Love ionic, currently building two apps with ionic+firebase/storage. I am very biased though as I’ve been in love with the angular framework for quite a while ---
**Author:** ![astonecipher](https://www.phphelp.com/user_avatar/www.phphelp.com/astonecipher/32/2797_2.png) [@astonecipher](https://www.phphelp.com/u/astonecipher)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2016, 7:16pm UTC](https://www.phphelp.com/t/mobile-programming/25460/3 "2016-09-08T19:16:49Z")
My gripe with ionic is, it is a hidden web app masquerading as a mobile app. I understand you have plugins to get to native functionality, it just doesn’t work for me when you can do native. ---
**Author:** ![brucedeniger](https://www.phphelp.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/c0e974/32.png) [@brucedeniger](https://www.phphelp.com/u/brucedeniger)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2018, 5:55am UTC](https://www.phphelp.com/t/mobile-programming/25460/4 "2018-01-04T05:55:02Z")
even i wanted to learn mobile programming.I don’t think it is as easy as web development