PhoneGap is a development tool that allows web developers to take advantage of the core features in the iPhone, Android, BlackBerry, and Symbian with a unified JavaScript API.

Get the source.

git clone git://github.com/phonegap/phonegap.git

PhoneGap project is separated into a native project for each device.

phonegap
  |- README.md
  |- android/
  |- blackberry/
  |- iphone/
  |- symbian.wrt/
  `- winmo/ (not production ready)

Each project has a respective README.md file. view that file for detailed information on how to work with that device. PhoneGap offers one unified API for accessing core functionality on all devices. Where possible, phonegap follows the HTML5 spec.

Exposes properties of the phone, such as its device ID, model, and OS version number.

Gain access to the Latitude / Longitude of the device, and depending on the type of device, the course, speed, and altitude.

Monitor the accelerometer on the device to detect orientation, shaking and other similar actions.

Query the phone addressbook to read the users contacts.

Read the device layout orientation, e.g. landscape vs portrait.

Brings up the camera or photo browser on the phone to allow the user to upload a photo.

Triggers the vibration alert on the phone, if it is supported.

Play sound files (WAV, MP3, etc).

Trigger and activate phone calls.

You may work with any Javascript framework within a PhoneGap application. XUI is the "officially preferred" framework of the phonegap core team. XUI is inspired by JQuery, optimized for web browsers and weighs in at 2.4k (minified and gziped).

• Website - phonegap.com
• Google Group - groups.google.com/group/phonegap
• Wiki - phonegap.pbworks.com/
• Twitter - twitter.com/phonegap
• Issue Tracker phonegap.lighthouseapp.com

Fork, commit, push, and send us a pull request at phonegap/phonegap.

Copyright (c) 2008 Rob Ellis, Brock Whitten, Brian Leroux, Joe Bowser, Dave Johnson, Nitobi

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