Why developers like Apache Cordova

What is 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.

Apache Cordova is a tool in the Cross-Platform Mobile Development category of a tech stack.

Apache Cordova is an open source tool with 941 GitHub stars and 340 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Apache Cordova's open source repository on GitHub

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Who uses Apache Cordova?

Companies

179 companies reportedly use Apache Cordova in their tech stacks, including Walmart, AB180, and Adobe.

Walmart

AB180

Adobe

hogangnono

useinsider

DAZN.com

Forum.eu

JustWatch

domclick

Developers

508 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Apache Cordova.

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Cupong.me

IMAPS

Guidoui

Showtimes.Athens

My Stack

Apache Cordova Integrations

Sentry, WebStorm, Meteor, Strapi, and Vue CLI are some of the popular tools that integrate with Apache Cordova. Here's a list of all 25 tools that integrate with Apache Cordova.

Sentry

WebStorm

Meteor

Strapi

Vue CLI

OneSignal

Bitrise

Capacitor

Outbrain

Pros of Apache Cordova

Lots of plugins

JavaScript

Great community

Easy Development

Easy to learn

Cross platform

Open Source

Easy, fast, not buggy in my experience with my code

Lots of descendants; PhoneGap, Ionic, Intel XDA etc

Can use CSS3

Rich HTML 5

Easy debugging

HTML, CSS and JS

Fast and hot reload

Rich css ui

Use what you code in your browser

Need a light system

Native Web Technologies

Without extra tooling needed

One code base everywhere

Decisions about Apache Cordova

Here are some stack decisions, common use cases and reviews by companies and developers who chose Apache Cordova in their tech stack.

laiaauset

Aug 25, 2021 | 6 upvotes · 22.7K views

Needs advice

Apache Cordova

Vue.js

and

Vue Native

Hi! I want to make a mobile app, but I am not sure if it is better to use Vue.js + Apache Cordova or Vue Native. I am a starter. I do not know anything about Vue nor React. Can someone recommend which one is better, please? Thank you :)

b-sts

Mar 18, 2021 | 5 upvotes · 95.3K views

Needs advice

Apache Cordova

and

Vue Native

Heya, I'm very new on here! And I hope I can get advice on this matter :

We are working on a new app. The web version is on Sails.js (V1)/node.js/vue.js. Started with the Web App default settings (including login and payments, which we are using use). We started with a web version to give access to the customer to start creating the data while building the mobile version. (iOS and Android)

I heard of Apache Cordova, that using the same JavaScript/css could be used to not re-code the front-end of the app for iPhones and Androids. I've been told that it is end-of-life now (? - I couldn't find this info myself).

I saw that Vue Native might be an alternative and would only need a few adjustments from our web version as we are using Vue.js for the frontend.

I know next to nothing on this, so I would really appreciate it if you guys could point me to possible solutions you've used and why instead of searching through all the existing solutions. (I'm very open to know if there are alternatives to those two too !!)

We will need to be using the GPS functions of the mobiles, which is a big part of the app.

Thank you!

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Apache Cordova's Features

Cross-platform (CLI) workflow
Platform-centered workflow
Hundreds of plugins

Apache Cordova Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Apache Cordova?

Xamarin

Xamarin’s Mono-based products enable .NET developers to use their existing code, libraries and tools (including Visual Studio*), as well as skills in .NET and the C# programming language, to create mobile applications for the industry’s most widely-used mobile devices, including Android-based smartphones and tablets, iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.

PhoneGap

PhoneGap is a web platform that exposes native mobile device apis and data to JavaScript. PhoneGap is a distribution of Apache Cordova. PhoneGap allows you to use standard web technologies such as HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript for cross-platform development, avoiding each mobile platforms' 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.

React Native

React Native enables you to build world-class application experiences on native platforms using a consistent developer experience based on JavaScript and React. The focus of React Native is on developer efficiency across all the platforms you care about - learn once, write anywhere. Facebook uses React Native in multiple production apps and will continue investing in React Native.

Electron

With Electron, creating a desktop application for your company or idea is easy. Initially developed for GitHub's Atom editor, Electron has since been used to create applications by companies like Microsoft, Facebook, Slack, and Docker. The Electron framework lets you write cross-platform desktop applications using JavaScript, HTML and CSS. It is based on io.js and Chromium and is used in the Atom editor.

Ionic

Free and open source, Ionic offers a library of mobile and desktop-optimized HTML, CSS and JS components for building highly interactive apps. Use with Angular, React, Vue, or plain JavaScript.

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