Native Android development vs web mobile development

I have to develop as soon as posible an appication (for android) similar to foursquare, I need to store some details in the phone and retrieve some other data from a web service开发者_开发百科. I can develop with phonegap or like a native app. What option do you recomend? What are the advantages and disadvantages of each one?

I think that to develop an app similar to foursquare you need to develop a native app. In fact I believe that you'll need to integrate the app with the use of the GPS and maps... this is not simple but this features are well documented.

Good luck :)

For as soon as possible, choose the platform you're more familiar with. Native development is in Java, Phonegap is in JavaScript and HTML. If you don't know either, hire someone who does - that'll be much faster that learning from scratch. Probably cheaper, too.