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A mobile development framework that allows to use standard web technologies - HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript for cross-platform development, avoiding each mobile platform’s native development language. Cordova wraps an HTML/JavaScript app into a native container which can access the device functions of several platforms. These functions are exposed via a unified JavaScript API, allowing developers to easily write one set of code to target nearly every phone or tablet on the market today and publish to their app stores.
First released | 2009 |
Latest stable version | Apache Cordova 11 |
Open-source | Yes |
Used by | Microsoft, Firefox, Adobe |
Among the framework’s former contributors are Blackberry, Google and Mozilla, while the list of active contributors includes Microsoft, IBM, Intel and Adobe. PhoneGap was created by Nitobi in 2009 to provide a simpler way of building cross-platform mobile applications. In 2011, Adobe bought Nitobi and the PhoneGap framework was then donated to the Apache Foundation. The project was eventually named Cordova which is actually the street address of the Nitobi offices. Now, since there's both Apache Cordova and Adobe PhoneGap, it's quite easy to become confused between the names.