At the Third Annual PhoneGap Day event from Adobe in Portland on Friday, July 19th, the software developing company launched PhoneGap 3.0 to enable developers to create mobile apps that are cross-platform compatible like Android, iOS and Windows Phone 7 by using Javascript, CSS3 and HTML5. Adobe also made it known in the release that PhoneGap 3.0 will ship with improved tools, new APIs and plugin architecture. However, currently PhoneGap 3.0 does not support the latest iOS 7, BlackBerry 10, windows Phone 8, Ubuntu and Firefox OS, but they are at the development stage and will arrive soon.
Talking about the new product, Director of Product Management at PhoneGap, Andre Charland said that, “PhoneGap 3 represents a significant step forward in authoring mobile apps using HTML, CSS, JavaScript. We couldn’t have done it without the support of all the committers at Apache Cordova and our partners at Intel, Google, Microsoft, Blackberry, IBM, and Mozilla.”
PhoneGap’s Brian LeRoux said that, “PhoneGap 3 makes building for all the major mobile platforms a consistently smooth experience with the new CLI tools. I’m particularly excited to see what the community does with the new plugin infrastructure in the coming year. We’re committed to working with plugin developers to make sure the entire community ecosystem works well on the PhoneGap 3 bits.”
PhoneGap made the announcement through its blog, in which it had described about the features of new product in detail. So for further details see the official blog post below:
“Adobe PhoneGap(tm), the popular open source mobile app development framework, released PhoneGap 3.0 today at the 3rd annual PhoneGap Day in Portland, Oregon. PhoneGap allows developers to build cross-platform mobile applications using HTML5, CSS3 and Javascript. With PhoneGap, you can re-use your existing web developer skills and use the PhoneGap API to gain access to native features that aren’t accessible in mobile browsers.
We’re excited to announce the following major new features in PhoneGap 3.0:
– New plugin architecture – Our plugin architecture keeps your app small and fast. You only include the APIs you need and plugins can be automatically installed and removed.
– Better tools – We’ve made it easier to quickly shift between native platforms without learning new vocabularies by aligning the native platform CLI tooling. Don’t have a native platform SDK installed? No problem! Our tools now integrate with PhoneGap/Build.
– New platforms – Earlier this year we welcomed support for iOS6 (with work on iOS7 happening now!), Windows Phone 8, and BlackBerry 10. Firefox OS and Ubuntu are coming soon.
– New APIs – Welcome to two new APIs – InAppBrowser (formerly known as the ChildBrowser plugin) and Globalization API.
With the PhoneGap CLI, users will be able to directly install PhoneGap from the Node Package Manager (NPM). You no longer need to download a ZIP file every time PhoneGap has a new release. This is all part of our effort to improve user workflow and make the process lightning fast.”
Source: TNW, PhoneGapBlog
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