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Nadeesha Thilakarathne Rajarata University of Sri Lanka5/8/2015

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What is PHONEGAP?

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Why should mobile developers consider using it ?

• “Allows developers to have a common codebase for all their application code”

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History of PhoneGap

• 2009 ,Created by Nitobi• 2011 Nitobi bought by Adobe• 2011 PhoneGap donated to Apache

foundation• 2011 PhoneGap rename Cordova

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What is the difference between PhoneGap and Cordova

• “PhoneGap is a distribution of Apache Cordova. You can think of Apache Cordova as the engine that powers PhoneGap, similar to how WebKit is the engine that powers Chrome or Safari. ”

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PhoneGap API

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PhoneGap Application Packaging and Distribution

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Simply

• “PhoneGap provides a “Web View” with extended capabilities”

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Take the pain out of developing mobile apps

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Take the pain out of developing mobile apps

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Take the pain out of developing mobile apps….

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Demonstration

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Beauty of PhoneGap

• Reuse your existing web developer skills.• Shorter learning curve.• Faster Development.

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Reference

• http://thaalakaz.blogspot.com/• https://build.phonegap.com• https

://github.com/phonegap/phonegap-start/blob/master/www/config.xml

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Thanks…!!!