{"id":4947,"date":"2011-10-03T18:23:52","date_gmt":"2011-10-03T17:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/4947-adobe-acquires-phonegap-company-nitobi.html"},"modified":"2011-10-03T18:23:52","modified_gmt":"2011-10-03T17:23:52","slug":"adobe-acquires-phonegap-company-nitobi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/4947-adobe-acquires-phonegap-company-nitobi.html","title":{"rendered":"Adobe acquires PhoneGap company Nitobi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Adobe has <a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/Adobe-Announces-Agreement-to-bw-3434538406.html?x=0&amp;.v=1I\" target=\"_blank\">announced<\/a> the acquisition of Nitobi, the company which created and sponsors the open source PhoneGap project for creating cross-platform mobile applications using HTML5 technology.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently this does not affect the plan to donate PhoneGap to the Apache Software Foundation:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>We are also excited to announce our donation of the PhoneGap code to the Apache Software Foundation,\u201d said Dave Johnson, chief technology officer, Nitobi. \u201cAdobe has been fully supportive of our decision.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Adobe already offers PhoneGap integration in Dreamweaver 5.5, though I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/4261-hands-on-building-a-phonegap-app-with-dreamweaver-5-5.html\" target=\"_blank\">found some gaps<\/a> in this initial release.<\/p>\n<p>I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/articles\/interview-nitobi-president-andr-charland-talks-phonegap-web-versus-native\" target=\"_blank\">spoke to Nitobi<\/a> CEO Andr\u00e9 <em><\/em>Charland earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>Smart move, though it will be interesting to see how Adobe now balances mobile app development with PhoneGap vs mobile app development with Flash \u2013 both of which are cross-platform approaches.<\/p>\n<p>Here at Adobe\u2019s MAX conference in Los Angeles I will be quizzing Adobe about how it plans to evolve its design and development tools to better support PhoneGap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adobe has announced the acquisition of Nitobi, the company which created and sponsors the open source PhoneGap project for creating cross-platform mobile applications using HTML5 technology. Apparently this does not affect the plan to donate PhoneGap to the Apache Software Foundation: We are also excited to announce our donation of the PhoneGap code to the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/4947-adobe-acquires-phonegap-company-nitobi.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Adobe acquires PhoneGap company Nitobi<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,56,62,67,80],"tags":[123,126,346,394,639,719],"class_list":["post-4947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adobe","category-mobile","category-open-source","category-professional","category-software-development","tag-adobe","tag-adobe-max","tag-dreamweaver","tag-flash","tag-nitobi","tag-phonegap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}