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Thursday, 9 August 2012

Windows 8 apps for the PhoneGap developer

PhoneGap is an interesting animal. While it’s most salient aspect is the cross platform nature of the applications you can build with it, it’s also interesting in that you use HTML and JavaScript to create the apps. Since this relies on the underlying mobile browser technology on each platform, there are (from time to time) a few little quirks. But overall, it really does provide a nice layer of abstraction. You can bring your web skills into play, and all you have to do is learn a few specifics of creating and publishing an app on a particular platform, design the UI with HTML and CSS, code it up with standard JavaScript, learn a few new APIs that PhoneGap offers, and you’re all set. In fact, to some teams, the cross platform nature is secondary. They embarked on PhoneGap development because it allowed their teams to reuse their web development skills, their favorite libraries, design tools, and more.

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