This is the third installment in a series covering four ways to develop a mobile application. In previous articles, we examined how to build a native iOS and native Android tip calculator. In this article, we’ll create a multi-platform solution using PhoneGap. Adobe’s PhoneGap platform enables a developer to create an app that runs on a variety of mobile devices. The developer accomplishes this largely by writing the user interface portion of their application with Web technologies such as HTML, CSS and JavaScript. PhoneGap’s development tools then bundle the HTML, CSS and JavaScript files into platform-specific deployment packages. PhoneGap supports a wide variety of platforms: iOS Android Windows 8 Windows Phone 7 and 8 BlackBerry 5.x+ WebOS Symbian Tizen For this article, we’ll focus on getting our sample FasTip application running on iOS and Android: As with the previous articles in this series, all of the code for our application may be obtained from a GitHub repository .
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