Cross-platform mobile applications are hard to develop due to different OS platforms with diverse programming languages on various IDE (Integrated Development Environment), such as Android / Java / Eclipse, iOS / Objective-C / Xcode, Windows Phone / C# / VS.NET. It is a hard technical challenge to launching mobile applications on major mobile platforms, developers must be familiar with these programming languages and IDEs to develop mobile Apps for Android, iOS and Windows.
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| From: http://www.slideshare.net/Martin82/introduction-to-phonegap-and-phonegap-build |
