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title: PhoneGap Day! Andrew Lunny and Hardeep Shoker on Phonegap Build
description: Andrew Lunny @alunny & Hardeep Shoker @hardeepshoker
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# [PhoneGap Day! Andrew Lunny and Hardeep Shoker on Phonegap Build](https://www.metaltoad.com/blog/phonegap-day-andrew-lunny-and-hardeep-shoker-phonegap-build)

 Written by [Metal Toad Staff](https://www.metaltoad.com/blog/author/metal-toad-staff) | Jul 20, 2012 12:00:00 AM

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- [Mobile Development](https://www.metaltoad.com/help/mobile-development)

Andrew Lunny [@alunny](http://www.twitter.com/alunny) & Hardeep Shoker [@hardeepshoker](http://www.twitter.com/hardeepshoker)

Andrew was the person who named it Callback, he's the bad person.

[PhoneGap Build](https://build.phonegap.com/) is an Adobe product in public beta, and free for now.

**Build builds apps in the cloud:**  
 upload code  
 download apps

**Features:**  
 Six mobile platforms  
 an API  
 Collaborations  
 Debugging - hosted weinre server  
 git & Github - tight integration

**Observations/Whining:** (his words, not mine)

The internet is hard  
 things like iframes for ads, static resources, XHRs  
 whitelisting urls in Phonegap  
 target=_blank to open things in a browser would help things

cross-platform != multi-platform  
 these aren't the same  
 phonegap build tries to abstract the sdk away  
 app != index.html  
 W3C spec for widget packaging and xml config

**Plugins**  
 mostly don't exist  
 what they (PhoneGap Build) want  
 cross-platform  
 the same js  
 consistent native api  
 declarative installation  
 documentation  
 what we have  
 github plugin repo [https://github.com/phonegap/phonegap-plugins](https://github.com/phonegap/phonegap-plugins)  
 awesome comic

**Consistent APIs**  
 Child Browser [https://github.com/alunny/ChildBrowser](https://github.com/alunny/ChildBrowser)  
 Its not sustainable to keep plugins up to day, let's fix this.

**New Stuff**  
 Hydration  
 Push code to server, it pushes built app to your phone

 Demo was super cool! Thanks Hardeep!

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