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Don't. Write it in Javascript and serve it around the store with no ristrictions. That way you can later wrap it in phonegab and ship it to both platforms.

Is it possible to make PhoneGap applications that don't look like complete garbage on Android? I only ever see apps that look like skeumorphic iOS app clones.

Last I checked it seemed like if you wanted ActionBar and such you'd end up writing quite a bit of native stuff anyway, so at that point it didn't seem worth using PhoneGap.

Can you push notifications to the device from Javascript?

No. Not that I know of.

But you save that feature for when it gets into the store -- it will properly piss of people anyway.

There's a PhoneGap plugin that does push notifications.

A PhoneGap app is still going to need to go through the appstore. But, as others have suggested, tweets with a link to his hosted web app would be perfectly adequate.

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