# Introduction
# Mobile apps with Cordova
# More info
# What is Cordova/PhoneGap?
PhoneGap/Cordova is an open source, mobile development framework for designing cross-platform hybrid apps.
- Design a website with HTML5, CSS and JavaScript
- Compile the code in the cloud (PhoneGap Build) or locally (PhoneGap CLI or Cordova CLI)
- Distribute the app through the various app stores
# PhoneGap = Cordova?
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PhoneGap is a distribution of Apache Cordova.
You can think of Apache Cordova as the engine that powers PhoneGap, similar to how WebKit is the engine that powers Chrome or Safari.
PhoneGap is Cordova plus some extra Adobe stuff!
- PhoneGap was developed in 2009 by Nitobi.
- In 2011 Adobe acquires Nitobi
- Adobe transfers its source code to the Apache foundation
- Cordova is the name of the open source project
- Further development is now done exclusively by Cordova
Goodbye PhoneGap
- Adobe announced in 2020 that PhoneGap will be discontinued
- We use PhoneGap only to simulate our app in the browser