We performed a comparison between Ionic and SAP Mobile Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Mobile Development Platforms solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."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."
"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."
"Ionic's best feature is that it's not necessary to write your own custom codes as all the hybrid is provided by Angular."
"With the Capacitor feature, you have access to the native attributes of your phone such as your camera. This makes work a lot easier."
"Ionic's best features are its hybrid app development, design, and tags."
"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."
"The solution is secure, reliable, and packed with features so we can easily implement apps even in the most complex situations."
"Technical support is helpful."
"It's not that difficult to set up."
"The initial setup is not overly complex."
"Two of the very fascinating features that make SAP Mobile Platform stand out from other platforms are its offline capability and integration capability."
"Both platforms, the SAP Mobile Platform, and SAP, are highly valuable for our company because they facilitate integration, which can be expensive. It's very convenient to connect and create billing accounts through the SAP Mobile Platform."
"One valuable feature of SAP Mobile Platform is its enterprise-grade standard and maintained APIs, available out of the box for easy integration with various systems."
"They started writing Capacitor to get rid of PhoneGap and Cordova, but they haven't yet got all the libraries and all the functionalities. They want you to start using Capacitor, but they don't have all the libraries there. They're developing them as they go. So, currently, you have to mix and match the three. When it comes to mobile applications, I would only like to use Capacitor. I don't want to jump between Cordova and Capacitor or have both of them. That's the main thing for me, but they have been working on it."
"In a future release, we would like to have a little more support for the desktop environment. Currently it is still focused on mobile devices."
"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."
"Ionic could improve in the Native mode because while we do testing it is difficult to find the root cause of problems. It could be more user-friendly."
"There is a lack of a community environment."
"As a developer, I would say one of the improvements is more plugins."
"It would be good if the mobile version uses something other than JavaScript and HTML."
"One drawback is that SAP Mobile Platform apps are only available through the browser, making offline capability more challenging to implement."
"The toolkit to develop front end applications, especially native applications, is not that good."
"SAP has announced that they'll be ending the support on the SAP platform."
"If it was low code or no code it would be ideal."
"The licensing model is a bit dated."
"The cost of the SAP Mobile Platform is high, and there is room for improvement in its pricing."
Ionic is ranked 5th in Mobile Development Platforms with 14 reviews while SAP Mobile Platform is ranked 12th in Mobile Development Platforms with 7 reviews. Ionic is rated 8.6, while SAP Mobile Platform is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Ionic writes "Great user acceptance and reliability, multiple teams not required, with prompt customer service". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP Mobile Platform writes "Flexible, well-designed, and offers good scalability". Ionic is most compared with Xamarin Platform, OutSystems, Appium, Mendix and IBM MobileFirst, whereas SAP Mobile Platform is most compared with OutSystems, Android SDK and IBM MobileFirst. See our Ionic vs. SAP Mobile Platform report.
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