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I’m a bit confused as to what is needed in order to develop a PhoneGap app that is cross browser.
From their Getting started page, I must select a platform. I thought this was cross platform.
Do I still have to download all packages for all phones if I truly want this to be cross platform?
There are two components to a PhoneGap application:
If you can finish your entire app in HTML/JavaScript, with no custom plugins, you can use the PhoneGap Build service to upload a zip file of your webapp and receive platform-specific packages for each platform you want to support, built in the cloud.
If you don’t want to use cloud build, or need to develop your own custom plugins, you’ll need the native SDK for each platform you want to support. At the very least, you need these to build the per-platform package to distribute to the app store.
You also need the native SDK for on-device debugging during development. If it’s just HTML and JavaScript, testing on Chrome and IE9 can get you most of the way there, but you’ll need on-device testing at some point.