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Aug

2

2011

PhoneGap 1.0 Released, Allows Devs To Create Apps For Multiple Platforms With Ease (Video)

by Joe Sirianni
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Are you a developer and want one of the most coveted Swiss Army’s knives you can find?  Look no further as PhoneGap 1.0 is now available for dev’s looking to get their application working on as many OS’s as possible in the least amount of time necessary.  Time = money for a developer and there’s no doubt about it, an application like this means more money in a developer’s pocket.  The days of writing code for a specific application, completing it,  and then moving on to the next OS are slowing coming to a dwindle. According to their official blog, Nitobi’s PhoneGap has been downloaded on average 40,000 times per month for a total of 600,000 downloads overall.  The application allows you to use JavaScript, CSS and HTML to write applications for popular OS’s like Android, Blackberry and Apple’s iOS.  Other platforms include webOS, Nokia’s Symbian, Windows Phone 7 and Samsung’s Bada.  Hit the break for the source link to grab the download and don’t forget to check out the video demo of how the service works.  Feel free to drop a comment or two below.  

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Comments

  • Omega192

    This is a really cool idea and all, but if there’s one thing that irks me it’s installing an Android app that looks like it was designed for iOS. I hope they have some way that you can take advantage of each platforms UI schemes.

  • http://www.coreware.co.uk Chazmuzz

    @Omega192 PhoneGap just gives the developer access to the device’s native features like geolocation, file storage, camera, accelerometer, etc. It does not decide on the look and feel of the app, that is up to the developer. If the developer wants to give their app a native look and feel on each platform, they still have to put in extra work to do so. My favoured approach is to use a mobile web framework with PhoneGap, which will give the app a generic mobile look and feel. I used jQuery mobile for my last project, which looks like this: http://jquerymobile.com/demos/1.0b2/