What is PhoneGap?
PhoneGap is a web platform that exposes native mobile device apis and data to JavaScript. PhoneGap is a distribution of Apache Cordova. PhoneGap allows you to use standard web technologies such as HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript for cross-platform development, avoiding each mobile platforms' native development language. Applications execute within wrappers targeted to each platform, and rely on standards-compliant API bindings to access each device's sensors, data, and network status.
PhoneGap is a tool in the Cross-Platform Mobile Development category of a tech stack.
Why developers like PhoneGap
Javascript
Backed by Adobe
Free
Easy and developer friendly
Support more platforms
It's javascript, html, and css
Common code base across all mobile platform
Not bound to specific framework
Powerful Framework