Deploying PhoneGap Applications to Web instead of to App Store

Question

I've built a web platform where one small feature allows users to contribute data to the system. Now that smartphones are so common, I want to build an app that allows people to submit some information, along with a camera photo and their GPS location.

As our users use varying phones, I'd like to build a single universal app to accomplish that task. I found PhoneGap online for that very purpose, but I have a question: can PhoneGap applications be deployed to the web instead of to app stores? By that, I'm asking whether camera and geolocation functionality will still work if the HTML and Javascript files are placed on a web server.

If not, I've also seen JQTouch. Can I use JQTouch instead for such camera and GPS functionality?

Answer 1

• I believe that a PhoneGap application is running inside an "interpreter" that will let you access the Camera Accelerometer and so on... So this means that it cannot run outside an Application. So no web deployement
• jQTouch is a UI framework, so no access to Camera or GPS
• You can use HTML5 to access location via web