In this tutorial we will discuss
what is phonegap and what makes it so cool
Phonegap is a mobile
development framework it was originally built by Nitobi and later was purchased
by Adobe systems. Phonegap helps you to create mobile apps by making use of HTML5,
javascript and CSS instead of the device specific language (Objective C, C#,
Java).
The apps which are made in
phonegap are called as hybrid apps, hybrid apps because the UI rendering is
done as part of web and to call the native controllers like the image, camera
or sqlite database etc you have access to these device specific API’s (we will
talk about it later). If you are planning to use phonegap in your next project
then I would suggest you to make sure that your HTML, CSS and javascript skills
are clean.
By using phonegap you are
at the same time developing apps for multiple platforms, you can take advantage
of the concept called as plugins to do device specific work in case if you do
not find a device API for the same.
Example: If you just want to
show a native alert in a phonegap based app, then you can write your own
plugin.
The app, which uses
phonegap framework, makes use of the native webview, all the styling and UI
rendering is maintained with the help of CSS and javascript. Also note that phonegap is an open source framework.
The various operating
system supported by phonegap are as follows:
Apple iOS
LG webOS
Windows
Symbian OS
Blackberry
Bada OS
Ubuntu touch
Android
While beginning the
learning phase a question raised in my mind like whenever I search phonegap
this cordova thing used to come up and it was like so confusing at the first
place but finally got the answer to it.
Above I mentioned that now
phonegap is owned by adobe, what adobe did later was they donated the phonegap
codebase to Apache software foundation (ASF), later phonegap was renamed to
Apache callback which the apache community found was not so cool so they
renamed it to Cordova, Cordova hmmmm is their
a meaning in this name while yes phonegap was a project that was born in
Nitobi company which was located in Cordova Street in Vancouver,well now the
name makes sense.
The next question that I
had in my mind was like what is the difference between phonegap and Apache
Cordova?
After visiting few links I
found that you could think of the apache cordova as the engine that powers a
car named phonegap. To be more specific Apache cordova has a set of device
level API’s with the help of which you can access the device level controllers
like the accelerometer, camera, etc with the help of apache cordova you can
build native mobile apps using HTML, CSS and Javascript.
Coming to phonegap now,
phonegap is a distribution of apache cordova you may think of apache cordova as
the heart and phonegap as arteries that supply blood to all the parts of your
body. So basically that makes phonegap as the supplier of cordova and its device
based API’s.
If the above example did
not impress you then here’s a common example that you might have came across,
you can think of cordova like the webkit which powers safari or chrome.
If you want to know more
then here’s a FAQ guide from phonegap itself.
If you are planning to
install cordova then please visit this link that contains simple step by step
written for installation. Also you need to download the cordova source from
here because to create cordova based app you need to use the command lineterminal.
I hope that i was able to clear few things regarding phonegap in the next post we will see more about it, if you have any question then feel free to mail me or leave it as a comment until then Happy iCoding and have a great day.
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