SYNOPSIS

PHONEGAP
PhoneGap is a software development framework by Adobe System, which is used to
develop mobile applications. Building applications for each deviceiPhone, Android,
Windows Mobile and more requires different frameworks and languages. PhoneGap solves
this by using standards based web technologies to bridge web applications and mobile
devices. It enables software programmers to build applications for mobile devices using
JavaScript, HTML5, andCSS3, instead of relying on platform-specific APIs like those in
iOS, Windows Phone, or Android. To develop apps using PhoneGap, the developer does
not require to have knowledge of mobile programming language but only webdevelopment languages like, HTML, CSS, and JScript. PhoneGap produces apps for all
popular mobile OS platforms such as iOS, Android, BlackBerry, and Windows Mobile OS
etc. It enables wrapping up of HTML, CSS 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 API). From
version 1.9 onward it is even possible to freely mix native and hybrid code snippets.
PhoneGap allows its users to upload the data contents on website and it automatically
converts it to various App files.
PhoneGap was an open source project started by a company called Nitobi. As part of
Nitobis purchase by Adobe, because the PhoneGap project had many contributors from

large companies like IBM etc, the project was contributed to the Apache Software
Foundation. At first the name was changed to Callback, but then was renamed to
Cordova (after the street the Nitobi offices were on at some point). This is because unlike
the project itself, the name PhoneGap is part of Adobes purchase of Nitobi.