What is Apache Ant, Cordova, Node Js and API ?.
What is Cordova ? Cordova ,formerly called as Phone Gap is a platform to build Native Mobile Applicatons using HTML5, CSS and Java Script. In other words it acts a container for running a web application written in HTML, CSS,JS Typically Web applications cannot use the native device functionality like Camera, GPS, Accelerometer , Contacts etc. . With Cordova we can very much achieve this and package the web application in the devices installer forma Device installer formats : Android – .apk (Android Application Package) IOS – .ipa ( iPhone Application Archive ) Windows Phone .xap (Silverlight Application Package) Are PhoneGap and Apache Cordova different ? Both are the same . But we can say that Apache Cordova as an engine that powers PhoneGap , like how Webkit is an engine that powers Chrome. What is API ?. API is a code written by some one else and you can use in your application and that is it, now some time in that application ...