PhoneGap Provides Javascript Access to iPhone API

There is no doubt that developers are coming from far and wide to write iPhone applications. While some are coming from household names Mac users have come to know and love, others are coming from developers who have never laid hands on a Mac before.

However, regardless of background, sometimes, learning a whole new programming language can be a tall order. Enter PhoneGap.

Developed by Brock Whitten, Rob Ellis, Colin Toomey and Eric Oesterle; PhoneGap hopes to be the bridge between Javascript and the iPhone’s Objective-C by acting as a Webkit wrapper for a web app. Having currently implemented the Geo Locating and Accelerometer, the PhoneGap team plans to provide access to the camera, sounds, vibration, local SQLite, and push services. This should come as good news to web app developers looking to write more robust programs and to those who have since avoided writing programs due to the disparities between the iPhone SDK and the web app SDK.

Give PhoneGap a try and let us know what you think.

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