About Apache Cordova™

Apache Cordova is a set of device APIs that allow a mobile app developer to access native device function such as the camera or accelerometer from JavaScript. Combined with a UI framework such as jQuery Mobile or Dojo Mobile or Sencha Touch, this allows a smartphone app to be developed with just HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

When using the Cordova APIs, an app can be built without any native code (Java, Objective-C, etc) from the app developer. Instead, web technologies are used, and they are hosted in the app itself locally (generally not on a remote http server).

And because these JavaScript APIs are consistent across multiple device platforms and built on web standards, the app should be portable to other device platforms with minimal to no changes.

Apps using Cordova are still packaged as apps using the platform SDKs, and can be made available for installation from each device's app store.

Cordova provides a set of uniform JavaScript libraries that can be invoked, with device-specific native backing code for those JavaScript libraries. Cordova is available for the following platforms: iOS, Android, Blackberry, Windows Phone, Palm WebOS, Bada, and Symbian.

If you want to use Cordova in your mobile application, take a look at our documentation. It includes Getting Started guides, the JavaScript APIs reference and examples, instructions on Upgrading from previous versions of Cordova, how to write your own Cordova plugin, and more. The selector in the top-right corner of the documentation will let you pick different Cordova versions and language translations. And there is a registry of third-party plugins that can be used in your mobile application.

Apache Cordova graduated in October 2012 as a top level project within the Apache Software Foundation (ASF). Through the ASF, future Cordova development will ensure open stewardship of the project. It will always remain free and open source under the Apache License, Version 2.0.

Some additional information may be found on our Apache project page.

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• 10 Feb 2015 » Plugins Release: February 10, 2015

  The following plugins were updated today:

  • cordova-plugin-battery-status@0.2.12
  • cordova-plugin-camera@0.3.5
  • cordova-plugin-console@0.2.13
  • cordova-plugin-contacts@0.2.16
  • cordova-plugin-device-motion@0.2.11
  • cordova-plugin-device-orientation@0.3.11
  • cordova-plugin-device@0.3.0
  • cordova-plugin-dialogs@0.3.0
  • cordova-plugin-file-transfer@0.5.0
  • cordova-plugin-file@1.3.3
  • cordova-plugin-geolocation@0.3.12
  • cordova-plugin-globalization@0.3.4
  • cordova-plugin-inappbrowser@0.6.0
  • cordova-plugin-media@0.2.16
  • cordova-plugin-media-capture@0.3.6
  • cordova-plugin-network-information@0.2.15
  • cordova-plugin-splashscreen@1.0.0
  • cordova-plugin-vibration@0.3.13
  • cordova-plugin-statusbar@0.1.10
  • cordova-plugins@file-system-roots-0.1.0
  • cordova-plugin-test-framework@0.0.1

  The plugins have been updated on our registry at plugins.cordova.io.

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  You can update any plugin by removing it, and then re-adding it.

  E.g. To update your camera plugin:

  cordova plugin rm org.apache.cordova.camera
  cordova plugin add org.apache.cordova.camera

  Changes include:

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• 06 Feb 2015 » Apache Cordova Android 3.7.1

  We are happy to announce that Cordova Android 3.7.1 has been released!

  This release has numerous bug fixes, and sets the target-sdk to android-21 (which yields a pretty good graphics speed-up on Lollipop devices!). It will be the default Android version when the cordova-cli 4.1.0 is released.

  To upgrade:

  npm install -g cordova
  cd my_project
  cordova platform update android@3.7.1

  To add it explicitly:

  cordova platform add android@3.7.1

  For non-CLI projects or for pre-3.0 projects, refer to the upgrade guides.

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• 09 Jan 2015 » Tools Release: January 09, 2015

  New versions of cordova tools are now live!

  • cordova-lib@4.2.0
  • cordova@4.2.0
  • plugman@0.22.17
  • cordova-js@3.7.3

  To update your tools:

  • If you have cordova installed:

    npm install -g cordova

  • If you have plugman installed:

    npm install -g plugman

  Changes include:

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Want to Contribute?

Contributors are welcome! And we need your contributions to keep the project moving forward. You can report bugs, improve the documentation, or contribute code.

There is a specific contributor workflow we recommend. Start reading there. More information is available on our wiki.

The JIRA issue tracker and the dev mailing list are good places to identify areas to help out in.
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To share your contributions with the community, you can send a pull request on GitHub to the Apache git mirrors. You can also advocate for your changes directly on our developer mailing list.

In order for your changes to be accepted, you need to sign and submit an Apache ICLA (Individual Contributor License Agreement). Then your name will appear on the list of CLAs signed by non-committers or Cordova committers.

And don't forget to test and document your code.

Each component of Apache Cordova is in a separate git repository:

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