Chapter 9. Native Bridging with PhoneGap
In the previous chapter, we looked at working with mobile maps in preparation for writing our geosocial game. In this chapter, we will have a look at PhoneGap (http://phonegap.com) as a tool to assist us in deploying our web applications as native apps. This will give us the ability to deploy our applications to the Android marketplace, while letting us continue to build the core of the application using web technologies.
We will investigate some very good reasons that we might want to do this in the next section. First, it will allow our geosocial game to give native applications a run for their money, and it will make it difficult for consumers to distinguish between a native app and a web application ...
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