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PhoneGap 2.0 released

PhoneGap 2.0 released

Posted Jul 21, 2012 4:36 UTC (Sat) by flewellyn (subscriber, #5047)
Parent article: PhoneGap 2.0 released

So, Adobe AIR redux?


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PhoneGap 2.0 released

Posted Jul 21, 2012 14:53 UTC (Sat) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]

Seems like the same sort of thing except this is for HTML5.

PhoneGap 2.0 released

Posted Jul 21, 2012 21:36 UTC (Sat) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091) [Link]

I don't know about Adobe AIR, but PhoneGap is primarily an argument for companies that do not want to invest in native apps. As such it doesn't even need to work, just provide the excuse. Then when things need to work resources are already committed.

PhoneGap 2.0 released

Posted Jul 21, 2012 22:01 UTC (Sat) by Los__D (guest, #15263) [Link]

Not really. It more or less just makes a webapp able to use native functionality, like camera, accelerometer, contact access etc, through JavaScript, and wraps it up as an installable app.

The funny part is that PhoneGap has become Apache Cordova, and Adobe PhoneGap is now a distribution of Cordova, whatever that is supposed to mean in that context.

PhoneGap 2.0 released

Posted Jul 22, 2012 2:52 UTC (Sun) by flewellyn (subscriber, #5047) [Link]

Ahhhh. Handy. Handy handy. This could indeed be an actually useful thing.

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