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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. | Invoke Native SDKs on iOS, Android, Electron, and the Web with one code base. Optimized for Ionic Framework apps, or use with any web app framework.` |
Android;Blackberry;iOS;Windows Phone;Windows8 | Build web apps that run equally well on iOS, Android, Electron, and as Progressive Web Apps;
Access the full Native SDK on each platform, and easily deploy to App Stores (and the web!);
It provides native functionality for web apps, and is optimized for Ionic Framework;
Build apps with standardized web technologies that will work for decades, and easily reach users on the app stores and the mobile web;
Easily add custom native functionality with a simple Plugin API, or use existing Cordova plugins with our compatibility layer;
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GitHub Stars 4.0K | GitHub Stars 14.2K |
GitHub Forks 889 | GitHub Forks 1.1K |
Stacks 578 | Stacks 287 |
Followers 685 | Followers 326 |
Votes 94 | Votes 2 |
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