I am planning to build an app for selecting things from a menu and manipulating with it. I was earlier thinking of learning java and build on android, but then I came across HTML5 and JQuery mobile.
Can anybody guide me what should I start learning? I am planning to build a simple app. I just want a good GUI and want to write once. That’s why I thought I’ll work on HTML5 and then store it locally and open it in webview component of different platforms. So I will write once and use it on all platforms.
Am I going in the right direction?
Also tell me the difference between HTML5, JQuery and Phonegap
Html5 is the raw information. Jquery (a part of Javascript) codes the interactive elements. CSS is the design. Keep them all separate, web standards etc.
These technologies work for web-browsers, but non web-browsers cant read this code, like app stores etc. Phonegap packages this code so can be read on other platforms. So rather than redoing the code many times – write once publish everywhere, or somethign like that. It can be seen in this picture: