Shasta Tek built application with PhoneGap are not just like normal mobile web sites. PhoneGap applications are able to interact with mobile device hardware, such as the Accelerometer or GPS, in ways that are unavailable to normal web applications. PhoneGap applications are also built and packaged like native applications, meaning that they can be distributed through the Apple App Store or the Android Market.

PhoneGap supports a number of different mobile platforms, including:

  • Android
  • iPhone
  • Blackberry
  • Symbian
  • Palm

The PhoneGap SDK provides an API that is an abstraction layer providing the developer with access to hardware and platform specific features. As PhoneGap abstracts the native mobile platform, the same code can be used on multiple mobile platform with little or no change, making your application available to a wider audience.

Hardware specific features supported by the PhoneGap API include:

  1. Geolocation
  2. Vibration
  3. Accelerometer
  4. Sound

Apache Cordova

Apache Cordova enables software programmers to build applications for mobile devices using CSS3, HTML5, and JavaScript instead of relying on platform-specific APIs like those in Android, iOS, or Windows Phone.|LS|9|RS| It enables wrapping up of CSS, HTML, and JavaScript code depending upon the platform of the device. It extends the features of HTML and JavaScript to work with the device. The resulting applications are hybrid, meaning that they are neither truly native mobile application (because all layout rendering is done via Web views instead of the platform's native UI framework) nor purely Web-based (because they are not just Web apps, but are packaged as apps for distribution and have access to native device APIs). Mixing native and hybrid code snippets have been possible since version 1.9.

Cordova Features

Command Line Interface (Cordova CLI)

This tool can be used for starting projects, building processes for different platforms, installing plugins and lot of other useful things that make the development process easier. You will learn how to use the Command Line Interface in the subsequent chapters.

Cordova Core Components

Cordova offers a set of core components that every mobile application needs. These components will be used for creating a base of the app so we can spend more time to implement our own logic.

Cordova Plugins

Cordova offers API that will be used for implementing native mobile functions to our JavaScript app.

License

Cordova is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. Apache and the Apache feather logos are trademarks of The Apache Software Foundation.


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