I used Cordova because I needed to use crosswalk to guarantee that Framework7 was working the same on every android device.
Crosswalk works also with Phonegap, but I'm not real programmer or IT guy so I could not fix the errors the terminal was thrown at me. I gave Cordova a try and didn't get the errors.
You should use Phonegap. Cordova and phonegap are like how Chromium(Cordova)and Chrome(phonegap) are related to each other. With Phonegap it is much easier to build apks.
Phonegap makes it possible to build apps with html, css and javascript and use the smartphone features like the gps, camera etc.
Phonegap is more like a wrapper around your html and css and let you app communicate with the smartphone features. You should use Framework7, ionic, Angular etc for the html, css and javascript part of your app.
