{"id":4270,"date":"2011-08-05T15:04:45","date_gmt":"2011-08-05T19:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/?p=4270"},"modified":"2011-08-05T15:04:45","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T19:04:45","slug":"the-rise-of-phonegap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/2011\/08\/05\/the-rise-of-phonegap\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rise of PhoneGap"},"content":{"rendered":"

On behalf of one of our clients, we’ve been doing some number crunching on the mobile market in recent weeks. One byproduct of that research was confirmation of a rise in interest in PhoneGap. <\/p>\n

PhoneGap itself has observed the same. These recently posted slides indicate massive growth in web traffic, both onsite and at GitHub, accelerating mailing list traffic and a spike in application creation.
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Phone gap Stats & Growth<\/a><\/strong> <\/p>\n
View more presentations<\/a> from AndreCharland<\/a> <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

Our data indicates similar interest and traction. <\/p>\n

First, we explored the relative traction rates on StackOverflow of projects associated with mobile.
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\n\"Mentions<\/a><\/p>\n

As you can see, PhoneGap is outpacing other mobile projects from a mentions perspective within the Stack Overflow community. But what about Hacker News?
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\n\"PhoneGap<\/a><\/p>\n

As you can see, the data is similar. PhoneGap interest and traction is accelerating. <\/p>\n

We also performed a rudimentary sentiment analysis on the various projects using Twitter’s standard API.
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\n\"Twitter<\/a><\/p>\n

Before we get into the results: this is a small, non-random sample, so it cannot be considered representative. It’s useful for informational purposes only. With that said, PhoneGap’s relatively positive performance here is unsurprising given their increased adoption. <\/p>\n

What you’re looking for in this chart is skew: are the bars higher on the left (negative comments) or right (positive comments)? And how far do they go, which is a different way of asking, when people said good or bad things, how many good or bad words did they use?<\/p>\n

As you can see here, PhoneGap is positively skewed, and had the most positive tweets (those with a net of 5) of any project included. <\/p>\n

When you consider the metrics, then, and the fact that PhoneGap is aimed at a problem in mobile platform fragmentation that is getting worse by the day, it’s clear that it’s a project worth tracking. <\/p>\n

Disclosure<\/b>: PhoneGap is a RedMonk customer. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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