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Phone Gap basic understanding: what and how?

           Before We start lets understand

What is phone gap?

Building applications for each device–iPhone, 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. Since PhoneGap apps are standards compliant, they’re future-proofed to work with browsers as they evolve.

How it works? 

PhoneGap applications are developed using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, however the final product of a PhoneGap application is a binary application archive that can be distributed through standard application ecosystems.


PhoneGap provides an application programming interface (API) that enables you to access native operating system functionality using JavaScript. You build your application logic using JavaScript, and the PhoneGap API handles communication with the native operating system.


Lets see we are good to Start:
 Phone gap supports the followings features. Lets first match up the requirement  before you start developing any application.

Supported Features

The chart below shows which APIs are available for each device



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