PhoneGap is the original and most popular distribution of Apache Cordova. Turn your HTML, CSS and JavaScript into an app on your device in minutes using our simple desktop and developer apps. Ionic is a front-end SDK for building cross-platform mobile apps.

Steps:

  • Installing Cordova

    Cordova command-line runs on Node.js and is available on NPM. Follow platform specific guides to install additional platform dependencies. Open a command prompt or Terminal, and type       npm install -g cordova.

  • Create a project

    Create a blank Cordova project using the command-line tool. Navigate to the directory where you wish to create your project and type cordova create <path>.

    For a complete set of options, type cordova create MyApp.

  • Add a platform

    After creating a Cordova project, navigate to the project directory. From the project directory, you need to add a platform for which you want to build your app.

    To add a platform, type cordova platform add <platform name>.

    For a complete list of platforms you can add, run
    cd MyApp cordova
    platform add browser    .

  • Run your app

    From the command line, run cordova run browser.

  • Build your app

  cordova build