title: Making app with Ionic. Why do I need PhoneGap?
body: <p>I'm a web developer curious about these hybrid (or native?) apps I can build with HTML5 + CSS. So I decided to try building one.</p>
  
  <p>So I'm totally new into this. (And also not comfortable with CLI.)</p>
  
  <p><strong>At first</strong>, I searched how to do, and found PhoneGap that can convert the HTML5 + CSS to an mobile app. Seems simply.</p>
  
  <p><strong>Then I needed a framework</strong>, and found Mobile Angular JS. </p>
  
  <p><strong>I started to build my app.</strong> But problems occurs when the app worked fine in desktop browser but couldn't load templates in ngview on the mobile app. That made me wonder if Mobile Angular JS maybe wasn't the perfect match for PhoneGap.</p>
  
  <p>So I searched for what frameworks is best compatible with PhoneGap and found that Ionic would be that. But when I read about it in their Docs it makes me confused. It seems like Ionic have their own building program that makes my HTML to a working mobile app.</p>
  
  <p><strong>So, why is Ionic perfect with PhoneGap</strong>, when you already have the PhoneGap-functionality with Ionic?</p>
  
  <p>I'm confused.</p>
  
  <p><strong>Edit:</strong></p>
  
  <p>After a several hours of further reading and taking in more comments, I think I can be pretty confident establish that PhoneGap isn't needed for Ionic. And Ionic isn't the best framework for testing PhoneGap.</p>
  
  <p>It seems more easy with Framework7. PhoneGap says it's just to clone the Framework7 <code>dist</code> content into PhoneGap's <code>www</code> folder. <a href="http://phonegap.com/blog/2015/11/30/framework7/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://phonegap.com/blog/2015/11/30/framework7/</a></p>
  
  <p>But I'm a little worried, do I have to do  that clone every time I want to test?</p>
  
  <p>Perhaps I ends up with jQuery Mobile anyway...</p>