Cordova

Revision 8 as of 2014-04-23 08:39:42

Clear message

Apache Cordova is a platform for building native mobile applications using HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

Ubuntu is now an official target platform for Cordova. This means that you can build and run Cordova applications on Ubuntu, starting with version 3.3.0.

Binary Cordova packages are available for recent Ubuntu releases, targeting Ubuntu Touch primarily. The packages are available in this PPA: https://launchpad.net/~cordova-ubuntu/+archive/ppa

Those packages are automatically downloaded when using The Ubuntu SDK (QtCreator) to embed in a click package.See for example the Cordova Camera Tutorial.

Using Cordova on the Desktop is possible, but only for recent releases, in Raring (13.10) or Trusty (14.04 LTS). Older releases miss the Qt runtime support required for most APIs to work correctly.

Release notes

Cross compiling applications for Ubuntu Touch on ARM is natively supported by the cordova-ubuntu platform support module, as of version 3.4 or superior.

Known issues

The Contact plugin / API is currently not supported on Ubuntu Touch.