PhoneGap 2.1.0 / 2.2.0rc1

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It uses HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript to build cross-platform mobile apps.

PhoneGap is a web platform that wraps around a bunch of native mobile device APIs and allows developers to build cross-device apps.

Since 2011, PhoneGap development is handled by the Apache Foundation.

Here are some key features of "PhoneGap":

Supported platforms:
· iPhone
· iPhone 3G
· iPhone 3GS and newer
· Android
· Bada
· BlackBerry OS 4.6-7
· Palm OS
· WebOS
· Symbian
· Windows Mobile

Supported features:
· Accelerometer
· Camera
· Compass
· Contacts
· File
· Geo Location
· Media (Audio Recording)
· Notification (Sound)
· Notification (Vibration)
· Notification (Alert)
· Storage

Requirements:

· JavaScript enabled on client side

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Cordova WebView - This allows for the integration of PhoneGap, as a view fragment, into a bigger native application.
· Command Line Tooling (CLI) (Android, iOS and BlackBerry) - CLI tooling brings a standard nomenclature to common tasks across platforms such as project creation, debugging, and emulation. Normally, these are different incantations for each platform vendor making cross platform development workflow inconsistent and jarring; we've fixed that.
· Enhanced documentation – Getting-started guides, plugins, migration guides and more to help accelerate the development of mobile applications and make it even easier.
· Web Inspector Remote (Weinre) ported to nodejs – The availability of a node module means easy installation using Node Package Manager (NPM).
· Cordovajs (Support for unified Javascript across platforms) - We've seen dramatic advancements to performance, security, and API symmetry across platforms thanks to the herculean effort of unifying our JS layer.
· Transition to Apache Cordova and nearing graduation from incubation
· Windows Phone support
· Improvement to iOS app creation - We've implemented significant changes for the iOS platform. Get a deeper dive into all the changes from Shaz, our PhoneGap iOS lead developer.

Via: PhoneGap 2.1.0 / 2.2.0rc1