Apache Cordova, formerly known as PhoneGap, is a mobile application development framework created by Adobe Systems, allowing developers to build mobile apps using web technologies like HTML, CSS, and JavaScript without needing to know mobile programming languages. It provides a platform to compile applications through a cloud service called PhoneGap Build, enabling distribution across various app stores. Developers can also enhance their apps with numerous plugins that expand the native functionality of the applications.

1. Apache Cordova (PhoneGap)
Mobile Application Development
Framework
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2. INTRO
Apache Cordova (formerly PhoneGap) is a mobile
application development framework initially created by
NITOBI.
But eventually, ADOBE SYSTEMS purchased NITOBI in
2011, and re-branded PhoneGap, and later released as an
open source version of the software called Apache Cordova.
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3. SO WHAT IS PhoneGap?
● PhoneGap is a software development framework by ADOBE
SYSTEMS, which is used to develop mobile applications.
● To develop apps using PhoneGap, the
developer does not require to have knowledge
of mobile programming language but only
web-development languages like, HTML, CSS, and JScript.
● It solves this by using standards-based web technologies to bridge
web applications and mobile devices
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4. HOW DOES IT WORK?
● The user interface for PhoneGap applications is
created using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. The UI
layer of a PhoneGap application is a web browser view
that takes up 100% of the device width and 100% of
the device height.
● And It, provides an application programming interface
(API) that enables you to access native operating
system functionality using JavaScript. You build your
application logic using JavaScript, and the PhoneGap
API handles communication with the native operating
system.
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5. Early versions of PhoneGap required an Apple computer to create
iOS apps and a Windows computer to create Windows Mobile apps.
After September 2012, Adobe's PhoneGap Build service allows
programmers to upload CSS, HTML, and JScript source code to
a "Cloud Compiler" that generates apps for every supported
platform.

6. PhoneGap
Build PhoneGap Build is a cloud service for compiling
PhoneGap applications. Adobe PhoneGap provides a
way for users to create mobile applications using
technologies such as HTML, CSS, and Javascript.
Applications created with PhoneGap can be distributed
to various vendor app stores (ex: Apple App Store) and
installed on a end-user's device like any other native
application.

7. PLUGI
NS
Some of the Commonly used plugins
● cordova-plugin-x-socialsharing -- Used for receiving
and sending SMS.
● cordova-plugin-webintent2 -- Web View .
● cordova-plugin-x-toast -- Toast Messages.
● cordova-plugin-inappbrowser-wkwebview -- Access in
App Browser.
● cordova-plugin-whitelist -- Access Internet.
● cordova-plugin-splashscreen -- Enable Splash
screen.
http://cordova.apache.org/plu
gins/
TO SEARCH FOR MORE
PLUGINS.
To extend the native functionality exposed by the
PhoneGap native-app container, PhoneGap Build
supports most PhoneGap or Cordova plugins.

8. FEATURES SUPPORTING.
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9. THANK
YOU !
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