Last week, in my blog post iFart Economy, I wrote about simple mobile application that can help you earn a lot of money if you’re creative and use universal language.
Many people may feel reluctant to even try programming for the mobile devices. Since there’s orders of magnitude more web developers (ahem, those who know well and use regularly JavaScript, HTML and CSS) than mobile developers, the barrier of entry has been high. An open-source development tool called PhoneGap might help. This development tool allows you to create mobile applications quickly using JavaScript by offering a number of JavaScript libraries that abstract mobile device hardware and make it available through JavaScript.
What’s nice about this dev tool is that, in theory (i.e. I have yet to try it out), allows you to write once and run on many mobile platforms: iPhone, BlackBerry and Android.
Here’s a quote from André Charland, CEO of Nitobi, the creators of PhoneGap:
[viaWe’ve been fielding the question “What is PhoneGap?” more and more these past couple months. So we put together this short video to help explain it:)
Get the code and more at PhoneGap
