Nitobi Inc.'s PhoneGap is catching on with smartphone application developers who want to avoid the pitfalls of writing to different phone platforms. PhoneGap is a development framework that lets HTML and JavaScript developers build native mobile phone apps that take advantage of native capabilities of the iPhone, Android and BlackBerry.Nitobi's PhoneGap is catching on with smartphone application developers who want to avoid the pitfalls of writing to different phone platforms.
In a video on the PhoneGap Web site, Andre Charland, CEO of Nitobi,
said, "PhoneGap is a development framework that lets HTML and
JavaScript developers build native mobile phone apps that take
advantage of native capabilities of the phone. And it will run on
iPhone, Android and BlackBerry, and eventually it will run on other
platforms."
In essence, Nitobi is building out a "write once, run anywhere"
platform for mobile application development, with the first three
devices supported being the iPhone, Android and BlackBerry. Rob Ellis,
one of the co-creators of PhoneGap said, "The idea is you write one
code base and it should work smoothly on all three devices."
At a recent meeting of the New York Linux User group, (NYLUG), Nathan Freitas, a mobile phone application developer with the New York-based Oliver+Coady design and development firm,
encouraged developers to try the open source PhoneGap framework for
building applications for the Android and iPhone. "PhoneGap is a
developer tool that allows Web developers to take advantage of the core
features in iPhone, Android and BlackBerry SDKs [Software Development
Kits] using JavaScript."
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