Chapter 1. What is Cordova?

This chapter covers

  • The history of PhoneGap (and Cordova)
  • How Cordova and PhoneGap relate
  • What Cordova does and doesn’t provide
  • When you wouldn’t use Cordova

Mobile development is one of the most important skills a developer can learn. The past decade has seen an explosion of mobile devices, from smartphones to tablets, creating an ecosystem of applications covering everything from the silly (remember the fart app?) to the life changing. Learning how to develop for mobile platforms is an important skill to acquire, but it isn’t something you can pick up quickly. Wouldn’t it be nice if there were a way to reuse the skills you already have as a web developer to create mobile applications? To take those skills ...

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