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by drzaiusapelord 5226 days ago
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.

3 comments

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.