Running jQuery Mobile as an iOS App

In this section, we are going to wrap a jQuery Mobile app with PhoneGap and run it on the native iOS platform. To set up PhoneGap for the iOS platform, we can reference PhoneGap's “Getting Started Guide with iOS.”3 PhoneGap has step-by-step instructions for installing PhoneGap on every platform and their instructions are very detailed with screenshots for assistance. Installation of Xcode, the IDE for iOS development4 is a prerequisite for developing to the iOS platform. If you choose to bypass the Xcode installation it will still be valuable to follow along to familiarize yourself with the general steps that are necessary to set up PhoneGap on a native platform. While each platform has specific IDE setup instructions, ...

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