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user1960836
user1960836

Reputation: 1782

Creating apps for several platforms with PhoneGap

I heard that PhoneGap can be used to develope platformindependent apps, and that different IDEs could be used. But when I search, all the examples use eclipse, and are for android.

Question1: Was I wrong thinking that you would just create one app with phonegap, and this app would work on different platforms?

Question2: Can one use VS with PhoneGap?

Question3: Why would one use JQuery MB framework with phonegap, instead of just going pure phonegap? After all, phonegap also allows html5, css3 and JS/JQuery.

On the installation guide, one of the steps say - phonegap run android (Take from: http://phonegap.com/install/)

Question4: Again, I am thinking... Are you bound to use Eclipse?

Question5: Can C# be used as code-behind, instead of Java?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 60

Answers (1)

Marcin Mikołajczyk
Marcin Mikołajczyk

Reputation: 731

  1. you were not wrong.
  2. yes, you can.
  3. jq mobile is UI framework, phonegap is 'backend' bridge between native functionalities and webview (btw. jq mobile is very sluggish with phonegap, you should get familiar with ionic for example, or many other ui frameworks).
  4. youre not bound to eclipse, Im using intellij for example.
  5. there is very little 'code-behind', if you dont intend to write plugins, then its like 5 lines of native code, rest is JAVASCRIPT. If you develop for android you have to use java as backend code, for iOS its objective-c, windows phone.. I dont know.

Upvotes: 1

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