PhoneGap is a framework that allows developers to build mobile apps using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript instead of platform-specific languages. It provides an API to access common device capabilities like contacts, location, and cameras. PhoneGap works by wrapping web-based apps in a native container, so they can be compiled and run as native apps on iOS, Android, and other platforms from a single codebase. This allows developers to write their app once and deploy it across platforms, rather than maintaining separate codebases for each one.

1. PhoneGap in 30 minutes

2. Phonegap
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Target Audience
What is Phonegap?
Languages used to build Phonegap app
PhoneGap API
How Phonegap works?
What type of application can I build with Phonegap?
PhoneGap Mantra
Native Vs PhoneGap
PhoneGap References

3. Audience

4. What is Phonegap
• PhoneGap is an open source mobile development framework
for quickly building cross-platform mobile apps using HTML5,
JavaScript and CSS instead of device-specific languages such
as Objective-C or Java.
• First developed at an iPhoneDevCamp event in San Francisco
• On October 4, 2011 Adobe officially announced the
acquisition of Nitobi Software (the original developer)

5. What should I already know?

6. Phonegap API
• An interface to the most common set of device functionality
• Contacts, GeoLocation, File, Camera, etc…
• All accessible through JS

7. How Phonegap works?
Source: www.metaltoad.com

8. Types of Application
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Location Based
Augmented Reality
Web service integration
And many more…

9. Phonegap Mantra
Write once run everywhere

10. Native Vs PhoneGap-Comparison
Native
Knowledge of Native API’s required
PhoneGap
Only Web No New
Development knowledge
enough language….!!!
Multiple Code Bases for each platform
Single Code Base for
iOS,Android,Blackberry,Symbian and
Windows.
Longer turn around time to get releases
out to all platforms
Lesser turn around time to get releases
out to all platforms
More effort
Less effort

11. Native Developers

12. PhoneGap Developer

13. References
• http://phonegap.com
• http://cordova.apache.org