Operating System: APK vs iOS

The guarantee of PhoneGap/Cordova improvement is very appealing. Utilize your current HTML/JS/CSS abilities (and group) to assemble cross-stage mobile applications for iOS/Android and other mobile stages. As a reward, you would then be able to refresh your current code base once for all stages as opposed to keeping up partitioned vaults (or paying particular engineers). This post will discuss a portion of the inquiries and choices you ought to consider before starting your next cross-stage Cordova extend.

Cordova or PhoneGap?

This first decision may be a befuddling one however it's truly extremely straightforward. PhoneGap is an item possessed by Adobe which as of now incorporates extra from administrations, and it could conceivably, in the long run, offer extra administrations or potentially charge installments for use later on. Cordova is possessed and kept up by Apache, and will dependably be kept up as an open source extent. At present they both have a fundamentally the same as API. I would prescribe running with Cordova unless you require the extra PhoneGap manufacturer administrations.

Which modules will you utilize?

Modules are a major piece of the enchantment of Cordova improvement. Cordova ships with a negligible arrangement of APKs and ventures include what additional APIs they require through modules. You can look through all current modules utilizing the Cordova Plugin Registry. The center arrangement of "favored" Cordova modules give access to Battery, Camera, Dialogs, Geolocation, and that's only the tip of the iceberg, which is by and large accessible over every single supported stage.

There are likewise numerous other outside modules that permit additional usefulness including local sharing, investigation, and numerous other stage and gadget particular abilities, however, cross-stage support is regularly more constrained with outside modules. Ensure that you know which modules you will need and ensure that they are accessible on the stages and forms you will be supporting. (Note: Cordova and PhoneGap utilize the same modules.)

Which stages and forms will you support?

Generally, it is trifling to support iOS6, iOS7, and iOS8, and Android 4.4 (KitKat, rendition 19), with Cordova-favored and outside modules, and present day program well-disposed HTML5 and CSS3. As an aside, both the Facebook and Twitter iOS apps just support iOS 6 and later. It is not as simple to support iOS5 and prior as these forms have been deployed in Cordova as of rendition 3.5.

The original iPad is bolted at adaptation 5.1.1 so those iPad clients (and clients who have not refreshed past iOS5) won't have the capacity to download your app from the App Store unless you alter the application in XCode. 

Furthermore, on the off chance that you will support 64-bit iOS gadgets, for example, the iPhone 5S, you will either need to utilize a current form of Cordova (3.5 or more prominent), or you will likewise need to do some further customization inside XCode.