What is PhoneGap?
PhoneGap1 is an open-source development framework that allows you to build cross-platform native apps with web technologies like jQuery Mobile. For instance, we can take an existing jQuery Mobile web app, wrap it with the PhoneGap framework and distribute it to all native platforms that PhoneGap supports. Currently, PhoneGap supports the native iOS, Android, BlackBerry, webOS, and Symbian platforms. In addition to PhoneGap's native distribution capabilities, it also exposes an API that allows our Mobile Web applications to interact with device specific APIs including the file system, notifications, and camera to name a few. For the complete list, refer to PhoneGap's supported features by platform.2 The PhoneGap API allows us ...
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