PhoneGap iOS Mobile Xcode Primer Tutorial
Ever feel like you are just seeing the tip of the iceberg, two or three days in a row (frankly, I’m gobsmacked!)? This is what PhoneGap feels like when you are first introduced to it. Am very very keen to find out more.
PhoneGap is a mobile development framework produced by Nitobi, purchased by Adobe Systems.[3][4] It enables software programmers to build applications for mobile devices using JavaScript, HTML5 and CSS3, instead of device-specific languages such as Objective-C.[5] The resulting applications are hybrid, meaning that they are neither truly native (because all layout rendering is done via web views instead of the platform’s native UI framework) nor purely web-based (because they are not just web apps, but are packaged as apps for distribution and have access to native device APIs). From 1.9 version onward it is even possible to freely mix native and hybrid code snippets.
The software underlying PhoneGap is Apache Cordova.[6] The software was previously called just “PhoneGap”, then “Apache Callback”.[7][8] Apache Cordova is open source software.
Click on picture above to go to PhoneGap page for a tutorial on an iOS Mobile App simulated via Xcode on a Mac Laptop with Mac OS X 10.7.5 (Lion) and Xcode 4.5.2 (after finding 4.4 was too old). PhoneGap also works on Windows using Eclipse for Android Apps, and here is a good link for this (if you need to start now).
The gist of the PhoneGap usage in this tutorial is viewable in the HTML on view in the tutorial picture above.
Link to PhoneGap information … via Wikipedia, from where quote above is derived.
Link to PhoneGap spiritual home page … via Apache Cordova.
Link to PhoneGap download page … download PhoneGap here.
Thanks to this tutorial for its great guidance.
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