What is Phonegap?
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.
PhoneGap is an application framework that enables you to build natively installed applications using HTML and JavaScript.
The easiest way to think of PhoneGap is a web view container that is 100% width and 100% height, with a JavaScript programming interface that allows you to access underlying operating system features.
You build your user interface using traditional web development skills (HTML, CSS, & JavaScript), and use the PhoneGap container to deploy to different application ecosystems and devices.
When packaged for deployment, the PhoneGap application is a binary distributable file that can be distributed by the “normal” application marketplaces (iTunes, Google App Market, Amazon Market, etc…).
PhoneGap can be used to build applications that target multiple platforms, including Apple iOS, Google Android, Windows Phone, BlackBerry, HP WebOS, Symbian, and Bada.
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Since the UI rendering engine is the mobile device’s web browser, PhoneGap applications can literally look like anything.
You can use standard HTML & CSS to make it look like a normal web page, you can use a UI framework like jQuery UI, Kendo UI, Sencha, Twitter Bootstrap, or Skeleton (or any other HTML/CSS/JS user interface framework). You can also use CSS styles/themes to make your web content look like native apps, such as iUI to mimic iOS or Android, or bbUI to mimic BlackBerry.
PhoneGap applications can have static UIs based on normal HTML, or can have dynamic & interactive experiences developed using JavaScript.
It depends upon the specific application, user experience design, target audience, and use cases to dictate how a PhoneGap application will appear.
Read more at :
http://phonegap.com/2011/05/18/debugging-phonegap-javascript/
https://github.com/phonegap/phonegap/wiki
Video Tutorial about Phonegap
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOH4aGows40