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zapdrive on Feb 5, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: GNOME project picks JavaScript as "first class" de...

I disagree. I used PhoneGap to develop my cloud-storage app so that I don't have to develop the App for 4 different platforms (iOS, Android, Windows, BlackBerry). I believe most devs use PhoneGap to develop real apps, not just to pack their existing websites into native apps.

psionski on Feb 5, 2013 [–]

This makes sense, thank you for the insight :) Wouldn't it have worked as a normal website? Does PhoneGap offer access to native APIs that are not available from web?

zapdrive on Feb 6, 2013 | [–]

It sure does. You can access local storage, camera, GPS, accelerometers... just name it.

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