PhoneGap is a framework for cross-platform development on HTML/JavaScript, for seven mobile platforms. Today one can read a considerable number of articles dedicated to PhoneGap, written by either native developers, who tried out cross-platform programming, or front-end developers, who tried out mobile development. Their assessment of how good or bad PhoneGap is, is influenced by their original field of activities;...

PhoneGap is a popular framework for creating cross-platform applications. The main advantage is the possibility of using the same code on various platforms. But that's not fully correct, because PhoneGap is a native WebView component, which has an HTML5/JavaScript application; and which is able to access the native functions of a mobile device (accelerometer, compass, contacts etc.).


Choosing platforms for a PhoneGap application


Currently PhoneGap supports...