I’m working on an online multiplayer mobile web app that runs 100% in the browser from a Meteor server (a demo for to me learn new techniques). This is basically just a single page html5 app card game with touch/drag events.
All I would really need is a web view to remove the address bar and nav bar, would PhoneGap be overkill for this purpose? (i’ve never used mobile web views or PhoneGap before). I would be targeting mainly iOS and Android.
Yes, it is too much. Apple reserves the right and most likely will not approve your app if it is just an app hosting a webview.
iOS web apps: https://developer.apple.com/library/safari/#referencelibrary/GettingStarted/GS_iPhoneWebApp/_index.html
Android web apps:
http://developer.android.com/guide/webapps/overview.html