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Posted by Abhin Iype
Abhin Iype
Courses Plus Student 4,615 Points

Mobile apps

Is there a good course on making native mobile apps with html, css and javascript using something like phonegap?

2 Answers

John Stephanites
John Stephanites
2,007 Points
John Stephanites
John Stephanites
2,007 Points

I did check into phone gap as well and most learning material that I saw was on Adobes sites or the actual phonegapbuild.com site. I was going to go that way but as I investigated it I realized PGB is a huge app and learning to use it may be as hard or harder as learning to make apps with Xcode or Android Studio and I figured I may as well start at the source. Just my thought which may differ from yours altogether. Good Luck!

Abhin Iype
Abhin Iype
Courses Plus Student 4,615 Points

I was thinking that with something like phone gap you could make just one app and deploy it to many different platforms, rather than learn java, swift, etc. and make the same app in different languages for each platform.

John Stephanites
John Stephanites
2,007 Points
John Stephanites
John Stephanites
2,007 Points

Yes that is the idea. The issue i saw was actually learning the PhoneGap platform seemed as intensive and "Big" or bigger as anything else. With all the managing of the SDK's and proper way of coding the app was very hard for me. A very deep knowledge of HTML CSS and Javascript is needed. If you have that knowledge I think it may be a great way to go.I do not have that so I figured I would learn how to make apps natively. Form there I think it will be easier to figure out how to either cross platform another way or learn Android .Studio which is different than Xcode but similar. I am working on HTML and CSS as a side note and by learning Swift it is much easier to get a grasp on that. I work with Muse to design my sites.