# sintaxi/phonegap

access core functions on Android, iPhone and Blackberry using JavaScript

Repository: https://github.com/sintaxi/phonegap
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/phonegap
Homepage: http://phonegap.com
Language: JavaScript
License Family: other
Last push: 2022-08-28T15:07:59+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 6604, "days_push": 1466, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2103, forks 1245 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:13.774089+00:00)

## What it is
PhoneGap is a mobile development framework that lets web developers access native device features (camera, GPS, accelerometer, contacts, etc.) on iPhone, Android, BlackBerry, and Symbian through a unified JavaScript API. It is the original project that later became Apache Cordova.

## Use cases
- build mobile apps with html css and javascript
- access phone camera from javascript
- get gps location in a web-based mobile app
- read device contacts from a webview app
- play sounds and vibrate the phone from javascript
- write one codebase for iphone and android

## When to choose
- maintaining a legacy hybrid mobile app built on early PhoneGap/Cordova
- studying the history of hybrid mobile development

## When to avoid
- starting a new mobile project - use modern alternatives like Capacitor, React Native, or Flutter
- needing actively maintained native bridge APIs
- requiring official support or security updates

## Facets
- artifact type: framework
- maturity: abandoned
- function: mobile-framework, sdk, gui
- domain: mobile-development, cross-platform, web-development
- platform: cross-platform
- tags: hybrid-apps, cordova-predecessor, native-bridge, html5, legacy, android, ios, javascript, mobile

## Member repositories
- sintaxi/phonegap (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:13.774089+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T02:54:15.658055+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/sintaxi/phonegap (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:13.774089+00:00, sha accdc3f30e2f)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.