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This is more of a conceptual question, not actually developing anything at this point, but I was wondering, if I wanted to develop a mobile application that utilizes the phone's real-time sensors, such as the accelerometer and performs data graphing, which mobile frameworks are best equipped to deal with that? (I do realize the truly native development is probably the most efficient way, however I am curious what frameworks are most efficient if development was to be done via a framework) For example, I know for a fact that things like Sencha Touch are good for basic apps such as directories, but are not equipped to deal with RT data collection.

There are a lot out there, and all claim to be great, PhoneGap, Appcelerator, Adobe AIR/Flex, BrightCove AppCloud, Corona, MoSync, etc.

So what are the few that are BEST for real-time, responsive applications?

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Best is subjective, but generally using the native language of the platform (Objective C for iOS for example) would give you the best performance. If you want to share code between applications (iOS & Mono) it get more tricky. MonoTouch and MonoDroid provide the ability to develop native apps and share much of the non-UI code.

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