Android/iOS: How to create a web-app, using native componentes?

Question

I've a responsive designed web-project. Everything works fine on mobile devices, but I'd like to create apps (Android/iOS) to use the native components like:

• Camera
• GPS
• local storage
• Calendar
• push/pull

Is there any way to combine the web-app with native components without re-writing the entire existing project?

Idea:

• create a native app
• use the native browser-component
• store the contents (HTML/CSS/Images/API-data) local
• show the local contents, if there's no connection
• store the made changes local (json)
• use native componentes (e.g.: make a photo, save it to a temp-folder, upload via browser onSync())
• sync when internet-connection available

I've not that much experience in app-development and would like to know the best-practices. Maybe there's a common framework that solves this problem?

Thanks a lot in advance!

B.

Answer 1

You can make a cross-platform app using framework like phoneGap for example.

With his java script methods you can use the device native components.

This is a tutorial for that.

Hope that helps