Mobile Development Frameworks

• PhoneGap is a software development framework by Adobe System, which is used to develop mobile applications.
• To develop apps using PhoneGap, the developer requires only web-development languages like, HTML, CSS, and JScript
• PhoneGap produces apps for all popular mobile OS platforms such as
•  iOS, Android, BlackBerry, and Windows Mobile OS.

• Every mobile operating system provides their own set of tools and environments to develop apps that will run on them. Application made for one operating system cannot run on any other platform as they are entirely different.Thus it is useful to develope an application program that runs on all platforms
• PhoneGap is a framework that makes the developers develop their apps using standard web APIs for all major mobile operating systems

From developers perspective, an app should have the following items included in its package:

• • Configuration files
  • Icons for app
  • Information or content (built using web-technologies)

http://www.tutorialspoint.com/phonegap/phonegap_environment_setup.htm




 process of transforming our web contents to an app format

• PhoneGap accepts user login created on GitHub or using AdobeID
• We can upload the contents we created to GitHub repository and and call them directly to url by providing their url referrence

1. Create Adobe ID

     2. By default, this page should lead to PhoneGap console as displayed below

 3. Then upload the zip file with the web content and configurations. After successful upload

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