PhoneGap (http://phonegap.com/) is an HTML5 app platform that allows you to author native applications with web technologies and get access to APIs and app stores. PhoneGap leverages latest technologies including HTML 5, JavaScript and CSS.

PhoneGap is a free open source mobile framework that allows developers to build a single code base application and deploy it on 7 different platforms including iOS, Android, Windows Phone, webOS, Symbian, bada, and Blackberry.

I see PhoneGap becoming a major player in the mobile development very soon because Adobe is going to provide this as a platform for its mobile development tools.

Why PhoneGap?

Mobile development is a mess. Building applications for each device--iPhone, Android, Windows Mobile and more--requires different frameworks and languages. One day, the big players in mobile may decide to work together and unify third-party app development processes. Until then, PhoneGap will use standards-based web technologies to bridge web applications and mobile devices. Plus, because PhoneGap apps are standards compliant, they're future-proofed to work with browsers as they evolve.

PhoneGap is an open source implementation of open standards. That means developers and companies can use PhoneGap for mobile applications that are free, commercial, open source, or any combination of these.

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