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Whoa a phonegap person!

I hate to hijack, but are you guys seeing any of these apps rejected by Apple because they weren't made with native controls or any other reason? There's a project I'm going to begin working on and phonegap looks like a real time saver to me, but I don't want to have to deal with Apple telling me that my apps aren't "good enough" for them.



We've submitted hundreds of apps with PhoneGap and never had Apple reject due to PhoneGap. However, if your HTML/CSS looks terrible, Apple will probably reject you. Especially if it's just a static website app. Make it look nice and give it more functionality than a static website, and you should be fine.

Thanks,

-- Matt


They tried to do that a few years ago, but nowadays they don't reject just because an app is web-based. I have one that's 95% HTML5 and it was approved absolutely fine.


I have a small phonegap app in the app store. It was approved without any problems.




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