Hybrid apps

When we decide how to implement a mobile application, we realize that there is another animal on this planet. It's the hybrid species that combines some of the advantages of native apps with the advantages of HTML5 development. This is the way Oracle has chosen for Mobile Application Framework, formerly known as ADF Mobile. In a nutshell: you wrap your HMTL5 application into a container, and this container provides JavaScript APIs for the native features of a device to make them accessible in a standardized way. For example, you use only one and the same JavaScript call to get the GPS coordinates from the GPS sensor. The container knows which device you are running and calls either the iOS-specific native API or the native API of whatever device you use (if it's supported). This container typically is realized with Apache Cordova.

This is from the Apache website:

"Apache Cordova is a set of device APIs that allow a mobile app developer to access native device function such as the...