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PhoneGap for Enterprise

By : Kerri Shotts
Book Image

PhoneGap for Enterprise

By: Kerri Shotts

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (16 chapters)
PhoneGap for Enterprise
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Why PhoneGap/Cordova?


Cordova is a natural fit for the enterprise environment for many reasons, some of which are listed as follows:

  • Quickly create cross-platform hybrid apps with little duplication of work and high code reuse

  • Leverage technologies already known by most developers familiar with web, multi-tier, and backend development

  • Access native features on mobile hardware—including network information, device location, camera, and more

  • Where necessary, create custom plugins to extend PhoneGap/Cordova for specific needs

  • Embed PhoneGap/Cordova into existing native apps as a component

  • A very active development community (nearly 22,000 members in the Google group for PhoneGap), including a good deal of third-party plugin development (as of this writing, 1,168 plugins are made available by 797 different authors); core development is supported by Adobe (PhoneGap) and Apache (Cordova)

  • Ability to deploy apps internally or to app stores

  • Open source (Apache license)

  • Enterprise-grade support options available

  • Additional features offered for PhoneGap by Adobe for the enterprise (http://enterprise.phonegap.com)