While in San Francisco last week, I got a chance to catch-up with my friend, Ryan Blunden, who is a developer that has really inspired me and motivated me to get into jQuery, mobile, better JS scripting, and just being a better developer in general. We ended up talking about PhoneGap and the last time I looked at them was 2 years ago. Ryan suggested I take another look, here's a YouTube video of their latest:

Wow! They have changed massively in 2 years. PhoneGap is definitely something I'm going to try and spend more time with in the near future.

I've been spending a lot of my spare time working in jQuery Mobile (trying to give this WordPress site a decent theme using jQuery mobile) and see that the future of the web is heading this way - where a framework is used to allow the same user experience across multiple mobile and non-mobile devices. jQuery mobile's main weakness, in my point of view, is not being able to access a mobile device's APIs (i.e. accelerometer, storage, camera) which is where a native app can become critical in certain situations (you can get away with a lot with HTML5). But I don't want to learn C or Java! This is why PhoneGap is soooooooo appealing.

This morning I noticed that jQuery Mobile has a section in it's documentation for working with PhoneGap. I'm stoked!!!