PhoneGap is an open source mobile development framework that Adobe obtained in 2011. It permits developers to build apps for different platforms using languages like JavaScript HTML5 and CSS3. Apps built using PhoneGap have their benefits and drawbacks.
This amazing cross platform technology has minimized the need to create separate apps for every platform like ios, Android and windows. Generally Developers develop apps using the technologies they like and know they enclose them with PhoneGap and deploy to the platform according to their choice and need. Mobilepundits is a mobile app development company also deals in Cross Platform Mobile App Development. At Mobilepundits we have Collaborative team that focus on quality work and customized service.
3. Are You Running Any Small
Business???
Are you running any small business or enterprise? Are
you worried about how your different apps can be
accessed and look like from diverse smart devices
and how simply a user can find his navigation to your
core business offering? As we all know that iOS and
Android are the two most popular platforms in the
mobile world, developers are taking interest to target
them and this has actually forced them to create
separate apps for different mobile devices.
To neglect this extra work of writing separate codes,
developers as well as business owners are trying to
make sure that they are able to dominate all the
mobile platforms with a single set of codes.
4. But How it is possible
Before creating any website for any
business, it is very important that the
developer should give a try to a cross
platform mobile development. PhoneGap
is a mobile app development framework
that is based upon the open source
Apache Cordova project.
By using Phonegap, developers can
develop native mobile applications for any
mobile devices by using CSS, Java Script
and HTML without losing the features of a
native app. PhoneGap Build offers cloud
based service that is built on top of the
PhoneGap framework.
8. Why choose PhoneGap for Mobile App development?
While evaluating the possible solutions for developing a mobile app, developers
always like to use PhoneGap due to its awesome features and benefits.
Firstly, the platforms that the application should support were considered and
mostly the goal was to launch for Android as well as iOS devices. Later plans
were made to expand the support to BlackBerry and Windows devices. Creating
applications for each platform using the native programming platforms like
Objective-C on iOS and Java on android required maintaining at least four
different set of codes in the long term.
PhoneGap acts as a wrapper around the device’s web view and hence it makes it
easy to create a single base code for all the four platforms. This in fact offers the
benefit of leveraging the existing skill of the developers and the designers
including others in the development team. Before starting with PhoneGap they
have considered whether it supported the necessary features that are required to
create the application and make it run properly. If all the features in the list were
met then the developers started creating the app using PhoneGap.
11. 2. Animations
Usage of animations between the screens. In some cases
the list view might slide off-screen in the left and show the
detail view when the item is selected.
12. 3. List View
This enables the users to scroll
the list of offers and select and
see them in more details. The
list view is a common design in
mobile applications.
13. 4. Facebook SDK Support
The platform should provide an interface that enables
the user to log in to the application via their Facebook
account.
14. 5. Notifications
The user should receive
notifications regarding important
information even when the
application is not running.
15. 6. Device Detection
Capability to determine the kind of device that the
application is specifically running on and the type of
features that it supports.
16. 7. Geolocation
The application should be able to determine the
location of the user and provide information
based on the location.
17. Conclusion
It is seen that all these are supported natively
via the web view by using HTML JavaScript and
CSS via the PhoneGap.
Any applications developed by using this
platform can have static UIs based on HTML or
have dynamic and interactive experiences that
are developed by using JavaScript. Such apps
can use zoom gestures to zoom in or out and
the user can lock the viewport scale by using
the metadata tag.