title: Beginning Smartphone Web Development: Building JavaScript, CSS, HTML and Ajax-based Applications for iPhone, Android, Palm Pre, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile and Nokia S60
author:  Gail Frederick 
description: Gail Rahn Frederick is an expert web developer and software architect in the mobile industry. Her products target 500+ device models and have been deployed at 10+ mobile operators in North America and Europe. She advocates standards-based mobile development techniques as a blogger and conference presenter. Gail teaches standards-based mobile web development in Portland, Oregon. Her students learn mobile markup languages, mobile design and usability, content adaptation, best practices, advanced web development for smartphones and defensive programming for the mobile ecosystem.
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  About the Tutorial 
  PhoneGap is a software development framework by Adobe System, which is used to 
  develop mobile applications. To develop apps using PhoneGap, the developer does not 
  require to have knowledge of mobile programming language but only web-development 
  languages like, HTML, CSS, and JScript.  
  PhoneGap produces apps for all popular mobile OS platforms such as iOS, Android, 
  BlackBerry, and Windows Mobile OS etc. In this tutorial we will focus on developing App 
  for Android platform. This tutorial will give you adequate information about how to produce 
  apps quickly using PhoneGap services. 
  Audience 
  Programmers who want their website to be available on app either offline or online, may 
  take advantage of this tutorial. This tutorial is designed to give a general view of App 
  building using web technologies. Anybody who is interested to know how to develop Apps 
  using web technologies may use this tutorial. 
  Prerequisites 
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