What are common sources of PhoneGap with jQuery Mobile performance issues?

Question

I have an application written using PhoneGap 1.0 and jQuery Mobile 1.0b2 running on iPhone and iPad.

Ever since I started using the framework, I have been plagued by per

Answer 1

Try updating your software. PhoneGap 1.2 + jQueryMobile 1.0 (released today) are showing large performance gains for me so far.

Answer 2

To improve the transition speed simply set the transition duration as :-

.in, .out {
-webkit-animation-duration: 250ms !important;
}

In the above case the transition duration is 250 ms.