Thanks, that does sound like the best way to get a high-performance PhoneGap app without refactoring too much. Looks like it's time to dive into Angular.

Regarding the API...do you guys have any recommendation or best practice? I have been trying to do it via JSON but not working as expected...

extjac said:

Regarding the API...do you guys have any recommendation or best practice? I have been trying to do it via JSON but not working as expected...

I highly recommend Phil Sturgeon's Book "How To Build APIs You Wont Hate". It's quite informative for those new to building APIs and it covers a lot of interesting topics. Worth a read, JSON is the way forward though :)

How did this/is this project going?

I'm about to do something similar. Moving off blade, and having Laravel as API, with RESTful JSON. So it could easily serve the web browser and ios/android apps.

But instead of Angular, i'm going with Emberjs.

I went with Emberjs instead of Angular and I'm having a hard time with Ember's Data Adapters. Apparently it doesn't work out of the box.

I'm searching for a custom adapter at this point

I think you can create your app using blade and then serve it from within a native app Check out my answers here: https://laracasts.com/discuss/channels/requests/phonegap-and-l... Hint: use something like http://gonative.io