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Aug 1, 2011

PhoneGap 1.0 Lets Devs Write Apps for Seven Platforms

Until now, mobile app developers have followed a pretty predictable MO: develop for iOS first, Android second, and everyone else after that. Since last year, many of you code monkeys out there have been tapping into Nitobi's PhoneGap, a project that makes it easier to churn out apps for almost every OS, all at once. It's been picking up steam, with about 40,000 downloads per month, 600,000 in total, and a steady stream of donations.

That all culminated this weekend with the release of PhoneGap 1.0, which lets devs use HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to write and deploy apps for iOS, Android, BlackBerry, webOS, Bada, Symbian, and Windows Phone 7.  Get it here

14 comments:

Zombie said...

hmmm... I can see a gaming and app revolution on phones coming real soon. :)

SillyPhotoStorys said...

Good day to be a coder I guess. There will probably be heaps mroe apps on Android becasue of this.

Gryt said...

Wow that is really cool, I got a friend in dev I'll send him the link if he doesn't already know about it

lolmudkipz101 said...

Like Silly said, hoping to see a lot more Android apps now.

Unknown said...

All these devices are just going to get better & better as time goes on. It's a very exciting time in technology for a lazy person like myself lol.

Unknown said...

Sweet! Good news for coders like me :D

T Papar said...

every mobile developer needs to look into this. although its quite challenging to make games with html/css/javascript without flash.

SoreLosersGaming said...

This is really useful. It's stupid that devs have to put so much effort into porting across different devices atm.

Diego Sousa said...

yeah, let them app come! :)

Uberbyron said...

Android definitely has some potential as a big app platform. Curious about the future.

Adam said...

Cool for devs,

Adam said...

Cool for devs,

Electric Addict said...

excellent for devs! but how optimized is it?

Electric Addict said...

excellent for devs! but how optimized is it?