Chapter 4Creating Apps with Adobe PhoneGap

Adobe’s PhoneGap is now the de facto hybrid technology platform to kick-start your native app creation process. The secret to PhoneGap is HTML5. In this chapter you will be introduced to cross-platform app development with PhoneGap and learn how you can leverage HTML5 to create solutions.

Building Apps with PhoneGap

Do you want to build an app? Of course you do. Everyone does. Apps are the next cool technology, and we all want to play with the cool technology.

Figure 4.1: Adobe’s PhoneGap is a cross-platform mobile OS framework you can use to build native apps.

Figure 4.1: Adobe’s PhoneGap is a cross-platform mobile OS framework you can use to build native apps.

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