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 you have to use in API key as well so that the miss use of that code or that feature is not theit

Apache Ant :

Apache Ant is a software tool for automating software build processes, which originated from the Apache Tomcat project in early 2000. It was a replacement for the Unix make build tool, and was created due to a number of problems with Unix's make.

Node Js:
Node.js is an open source, cross-platform runtime environment for developing server-side and networking applications. Node.js applications are written in JavaScript, and can be run within the Node.js runtime on OS X, Microsoft Windows, and Linux.

Node.js = Runtime Environment + JavaScript Library

What Can Node.js Do?

• Node.js can generate dynamic page content
• Node.js can create, open, read, write, delete, and close files on the server
• Node.js can collect form data
• Node.js can add, delete, modify data in your database