Pros and Cons of PhoneGap

Pros

Many mobile app development firms using PhoneGapdevelopment tool for cross platform mobile apps. But this tool contains its own advantages and disadvantages.

Advantages And Disadvantages ofPhoneGap Development Tools

1. Not required any programming language
2. Supportive for all major platforms
3. Support for Various API’sAdvantages of PhoneGap development tools
4. This tool is based on latest technologies like HTML5, CSS3,JAVA script.
5. Does not required any knowledge of denseprogramming language.
6. Instead the PhoneGap app development program work as a framework for easily buildmobile apps without the extra process of learning extraprogramming languages.
7. The biggest advantage of PhoneGap development tool that support for all majorplatforms like iOS, Android, Windows, blackberry,symbian etc. such diverse compatibility allows easy to create apps with a single code and runson different mobile platfroms. Supportive for all major mobile platforms.
8. PhoneGap app development tool support forvarious application programming interfaces like Accelerometer, Geo location, media, network,notification, camera, storage etc. With these supporting API’s developers are still able to tap inmany of devices build in features.Support for Various API’s.
9. The PhoneGap development tool provides open source capability to the developers to create apps only one time and if you want to create phoneGap app more than onetime than phoneGap will charge you a monthly basis.

Cons
1. This cross platform mobile app development tool does not perform well as compared to other programs based onnative languages. In other word the program allows appsare compatible for cross platform mobile development butif we talk about hybrid app then method aims for vastcompatibility, the created app do not perform well asothers.May be insufficient for nativeapplications
2. Phonegap development tool does not cappuccino functionality which provides many offeatures to developing online applications. This functionality gives much facility for app developer likedrag, drop, copy, paste, undo, redo graphics,animation, color, font section etc. Does not support allfunctionality

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