PhoneGap - Develop Mobile Apps for iPhone, Android, Windows and Java Enabled Mobiles

• PhoneGap is a mobile development framework produced by Nitobi, purchased by Adobe Systems. 

• PhoneGap is a free and open source framework that allows you to create mobile apps using standardized web APIs for the platforms you care about. 

• It enables software programmers to build applications for mobile devices using JavaScript, HTML5 and CSS3, instead of device-specific languages such as Objective-C.

• The software underlying PhoneGap is Apache Cordova

• The software was previously called just "PhoneGap", then "Apache Callback".

PhoneGap currently supports development for the operating systems Apple iOS, Google Android, LG webOS, Microsoft Windows Phone, Nokia Symbian OS,^[26] RIM BlackBerry and Tizen. Support for recent versions, such as BlackBerry 5 and 6 and Windows Phone 7, is being implemented now.^[27][28] Bada (the operating system used by the Samsung Wave S8500) support is "coming soon".^[29] The table below is a list of supported features for each operating system.^[30]

Feature	iPhone /iPhone 3G	iPhone 3GS and newer	Android 1.0 – 4.2	Windows Phone	4.6–4.7	5.x–6.0+	Bada	Symbian	webOS	Tizen
Accelerometer	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	N/A	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Camera	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	N/A	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Compass	N/A	Yes	Yes	Yes	N/A	N/A	Yes	N/A	Yes	Yes
Contacts	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	N/A	Yes	Yes	Yes	N/A	N/A
File	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	N/A	Yes	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Geolocation	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Media	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	Yes
Network	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Notification (alert)	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Notification (sound)	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Notification (vibration)	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	N/A
Storage	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	N/A	Yes	N/A	Yes	Yes	Yes
Barcode scanner	Yes	Yes	Yes	N/A	Yes	Yes	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

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