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Asked: 2026-05-27T22:43:05+00:00

I’m developing a simple lightweight webbapp which I intend to wrap as a Phonegap

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I’m developing a simple lightweight webbapp which I intend to wrap as a Phonegap app for iPhone and possibly Android.

The thing is, I don’t actually use ANY of the native features available via Phonegap, such as the camera or GPS. Do you know any ways for me to trim Phonegap so that I can have an app which is as light-weight and fast as possible?

For example, can I trim or even leave out phonegap.js? Any objecive-c code or resources that can be dropped?

Alternatively, does anyone know of some other bare bones webview wrapper which is lighter than Phonegap to begin with?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Yes, it’s possible. You likely can leave out phonegap.js, or at least substantially trim it.

    PhoneGap provides two distinct sets of capabilities:

    1. Provide a set of JavaScript APIs to access native capabilities
    2. Wrap a set of HTML assets into a native application

    For Android, #2 is completely implemented in phonegap.jar. #1 requires the addition of phonegap.js. Thus if you don’t need the APIs, you don’t need phonegap.js. I haven’t tested on IOS, but would expect it to be a similar story.

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