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Lean Mobile App Development
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Lean Mobile App Development

by Mike van Drongelen, Aravind Krishnaswamy, Adam Dennis
November 2017
Intermediate to advanced
378 pages
10h 24m
English
Packt Publishing
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Adobe PhoneGap

Adobe PhoneGap is an open source distribution of Apache Cordova. It is not a framework for app development, but serves to package and release apps that have been built in web technologies such as HTML 5, CSS, and JavaScript. It is part of the Adobe Creative Cloud and offers similar benefits to other hybrid options:

  • Write a core codebase in client-side web languages, and release it natively on some of the most popular platforms
  • Developers with no native experience can turn a web app into a native app
  • There is a wide selection of additional tools that make it easy to preview, build, and download test apps

PhoneGap's weaknesses are also in line with other cross-platform tools:

  • Its performance is not on par with native apps. ...
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