
Learn to build Android and iOS apps with Apache Cordova using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to create a calculator app user interface.
Learn to build an Apache Cordova calculator app using html, css, and javascript by creating a project from the command line and previewing it with a live server.
Convert a Cordova web app into an Android app by adding the Android platform latest and running it in Android Studio. Learn debugging, Cordova prepare, and device pairing.
Explore how to create and consume a Cordova plugin to bridge the webview with native Android code, using a dummy Java plugin that adds two integers and returns the result.
Create a custom Cordova plugin and a Cordova app, implement an Android plugin that adds two integers and returns the sum, and consume it from the app using Cordova.exec.
Create a new Cordova app and add the Android platform. Integrate a custom plugin, consume it with Cordova.exec in JavaScript, and verify results in the emulator.
Learn how to create cross-platform mobile apps using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Bootstrap with the powerful Apache Cordova framework. Discover efficient techniques for building native-like experiences for both Android and iOS devices.
Apache Cordova is an open-source mobile development framework. It allows you to use standard web technologies such as HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript for cross-platform development, avoiding each mobile platform's native development language. Applications execute within wrappers targeted to each platform, and rely on standards-compliant API bindings to access each device's sensors, data, and network status."
By Cross-Platform, we mean that the application codebase can be written once using HTML5, CSS3 & JavaScript and it can be run across multiple target mobile platforms such as Android, iOS, Windows, Firefox, Ubuntu mobile.
The web development community has been continually innovating and with the recent development of frameworks such as Angular, IONIC, jQuery, and React, the traditional web applications have now almost become indistinguishable from their native platform-specific peers in terms of functionality.
Apache Cordova can be extended with native plug-ins, allowing developers to add more functionalities that can be called from JavaScript, making it communicate directly between the native layer and the HTML5 page. These plugins allow access to the device's accelerometer, camera, compass, file system, microphone, and more.
However, the use of Web-based technologies leads some Apache Cordova applications to run slower than native applications with similar functionality.
Here’s how to get started with Apache Cordova.