Apple and PhoneGap

robin.jewsbury

Apple actually like to fully pre-define/control the content in applications. The issue they have with some PhoneGap applications is that if Internet content is shown they cannot predict what that content is. Its nothing to do with security its more to do with the potential for offensive content and not specifically PhoneGap or frameworks either. There are 100s of phone gap applications on the iPhone Appstore and there are also quite a few cases of rejected ones and quite a lot of cases of Apple rejecting other applications too. One of the issues around rejections is Apple never give much information on the rejection reason so its results in all sorts of stories and assumptions building up.

Apple has major problems with PhoneGap

JOM

To summarize: you recommend using PhoneGap? Well, Apple doesn't like that at all, in fact several sites go to great lenghts to explain how to HIDE PhoneGap! One example:

http://phonegap.pbworks.com/Remove-PhoneGap-References

That can't be too portable or future-proof coding :) What's more worrying is that Apple "seems" to consider PhoneGap and similar app frameworks as potential security risks:

http://britg.com/tags/phonegap/

"As has been pointed out, this is rejected because it allows an external application to access information about the iPhone."

While app frameworks are great, the situation doesn't seem to be very clear. Fortunately this doesn't seem to be a problem for Nokia, considering how Platform Services API has been made available just about for everyone using any development language/framework.

Cheers,

--jouni

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Apple and PhoneGap

Apple has major problems with PhoneGap