As you are well aware by the end of this chapter, deploying a mobile Angular application is a lengthy but rewarding process. Within the web developer community, the general sentiments around these types of applications is still mixed. Nevertheless, there are many developers working to improve the overall developer experience of deploying a web application to mobile. The most promising of which is Firefox OS, built from the ground up as a web-based operating system that runs nothing but web applications. This means that now, and in the not so distant future (in accelerated web time), web applications will likely be considered first-class citizens on the top of mobile platforms, Android and iOS (hopefully) included.

To conclude, you learned the brief history of how web applications came to mobile platforms, how to configure your development environment to facilitate the transition from Angular web to mobile app, how to use Apache Cordova and PhoneGap Build alike to package your Angular...