Reputation: 2129

It's possible create a app for Mac (desktop) using PhoneGap?

I checked the documentation and I could not find a way to create a Mac App, it's that possible?

we can just build with phonegap mobile apps? not desktop apps? it's an another framework who do that?

http://docs.phonegap.com/en/3.0.0/guide_cli_index.md.html

UPDATE: As of Cordova version 6.0, Mac OSX platform support has been added.

Upvotes: 3

Answers (4)

Jason Scheunemann

Reputation: 11

Check out the Cordova project. I created a test prep app for my workplace that is currently working under the following platforms using a single codebase:

Windows 8.1 and 10 desktop
Mac OSX desktop
iOS
Android
Windows phone

I'm pretty sure it would work with all other supported platforms but I don't have much use for Tizen ;)

Upvotes: 0

Dilberted

Reputation: 1172

No phonegap cannot be used to build desktop apps. One of the main reasons devs use phonegap is to allow them to build web apps with the capability to interact with the phone hardware. This gives them ability to write same web app built for different platforms (android, ios, windows phone etc).

Link below provides a list of target platforms that it supports

http://docs.phonegap.com/en/edge/cordova_device_device.md.html

Update : Google around and found : http://fluidapp.com/ (not free but cheap to buy) or https://macgapproject.github.io/ .. never tried either of those

Update 2: Since 2016, PhoneGap/Cordova supports building apps for Mac. For more details, see brianfit's response on the bottom

Upvotes: 3