In this chapter, we will take a look at how jQuery Mobile can be effectively used to create a hybrid mobile application. A hybrid mobile application is an installable mobile application developed using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, and then wrapped inside a thin native container, Cordova; in our case, that provides access to the features of the native platform such as Android or iOS. We will look into the details of how to configure Cordova and look at some of the important features of Cordova in this chapter.