How apache cordova works?

[Kamil]

Hi all, I'd like to ask you a little question that has been bothering me for a long time, how apache cordova works Please give me your help quickly.

[Lorenzo]

Cordova ,formerly called as Phone Gap is a platform to build Native Mobile Applicatons using HTML5, CSS and Java Script.

In other words it acts  a container for running a web application written in HTML, CSS,JS Typically Web applications cannot use the native device functionality