PhoneGap and mobile pp development in general

Sin_Chase

Sin_Chase

Sin_Chase

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So, for a while I have been considering getting into some mobile phone application development, for fun mainly and little project of my own but would be curious about some of the revenue generating side of it.

Was browsing some tech blogs and one made mention of a cross-platform development tool called PhoneGap.

The site is dead at the moment, no doubt being hammered but my question is, has anyone used it, and secondly - do you think it is worth it?

Outside of this app however can any recommend where is a good place to start?
 
Howdy,

I'm using Phonegap on a current commercial project and it's the first experience I've had with it. Another library to check out is Titanium Appcelerator.

Basically Phonegap allows you to create mobile apps using HTML, CSS and JavaScript without learning the native platform language such as Java or Objective C.

I've wrote my app with the help of the Sencha Touch JS library, this enables you to build a UI fairly quickly although it does have a bit of a learning curve. An alternative library is Jquery Mobile, although I found it not as good as Sencha, this despite loving Jquery itself.

Phonegap downsides - it will never be as quick as a native app, your web app runs in a browser and is then packaged up.

That aside I've been impressed so far. If you've already got web development skills then you'll be able to knock something up fairly quickly, which you can then publish to Andrid or iPhone with ease.
 
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