Hybrid Mobile Apps — PhoneGap

Phone Gap is a open source framework for building cross platforms mobile applications with Html, Css and Java Script. Its essentially a wrapper which can be build cross platform mobile applications from same source code.

Platforms Supported: IOS, Android, Blackberry, Windows Mobile, WebOS, Symbian and Bada.

Hybrid Mobile Apps PhoneGap

Advantages of Using Phone Gap

1. Single Code base for the cross platform applications.
2. Access to hard ware features like Geo Location, Vibration, Accelerometer, Contact and Sound.
3. In Development time & cost compared to development of native applications for every platform.
4. Offline Support similar to Native Applications
5. Use of Client Side data base API.

Disadvantages

1. As phone gap supports multiple platforms, new features released might not be part of the phone gap framework.
2. Several Core device features may not be integrated with Phone gap.
3. Monetization opportunities of Phone gap are lesser compared with native applications.
4. Performance is slightly on a lesser side compared to native applications.
5. Number of available libraries are lesser. For example, bar code scanner, signature capture is not available in Html5.