Overview
PhoneGap is a web-based mobile development framework, based on the open-source Cordova project. PhoneGap allows you to use standard web technologies such as HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript for cross-platform development, avoiding each mobile platforms' native development language.
PhoneGap was born out of iPhoneDevCamp in 2008, where it was created simply because there were not a lot of Objective-C developers in comparison to Web Developers. The challenge was to put together a framework that would allow web developers to use HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to code applications that could take advantage of the native functionality of the mobile device, such as the Camera, Storage, and GeoLocation features.
Initially built to work with the iPhone, within a year PhoneGap was growing and beginning to support Android too. Now, nearly 4 years old, PhoneGap is one of the most talked about toolkits for developing mobile applications and supports a much wider range of mobile devices including iOS, Android, Blackberry, Symbian, webOS, WP7, and Bada.
Phonegap Development With in Eclipse
- Download Android SDK
- Download Eclipse Helios or Eclipse Indigo - Indigo Eclipse Classic or Eclipse IDE for Java Developers is recommended
- Configure ADT Plugin to define SDK location and set up an AVD
- Install the MDS AppLaud for PhoneGap:
Step 1 :
Step 2 :
- Download the Eclipse Web Page Editor (if necessary)
If your Eclipse installation doesn't yet include a web page editor for html files
- Will be necessary if you have a brand new Eclipse Classic or Eclipse for Java
- Install New Software -> Work with: Indigo (or Helios) ->Web, XML Java EE, and OSGi Enterprise Development -> Web Page Editor
- Optionally adjust the Eclipse JavaScript Validation rules
Eclipse -> Preferences -> JavaScript -> Validator -> Errors Warnings
- If you select Enable JavaScript semantic validation, adjust the settings below as you like
- Create a PhoneGap for Android project
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