I am building a feed like application with infinite scroll inside my native Android application using webview. I first tried Ionic framework but really disappointed with performance.
I am now thinking of developing it in pure JQuery and responsive HTML/CSS to achieve superior performance. One thing I am considering is weather to emit HTML or JSON from the server side APIs.
Emitting JSON means client side DOM manipulation which can again hurt performance. I am looking for maximum performance.
Whereas, I am not very sure emitting HTML is a very good idea for better maintainability of this application.
What do you guys recommend?