PhoneGap is a framework for building mobile apps using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. It allows developers to write native mobile applications using standard web technologies and wrap them to run on iOS, Android, BlackBerry and other platforms. PhoneGap was acquired by Adobe and is now used to package the open source Cordova framework. Cordova provides plugins that allow apps to access device capabilities like the camera, contacts, file system and more. Developers can create PhoneGap apps using an IDE or command line tools to package and deploy apps to app stores and mobile devices.