Know How to Build an iOS App Using Cordova

Hybrid Mobile Applications are web applications (or web pages) in the native browser, such as UIWebView in iOS and WebView in Android (not Safari or Chrome). Usually, the applications are developed using CSS, HTML & Javascript.

Apache Cordova makes it much simple and easy as it allows wrapping up of CSS, HTML, and JavaScript code depending upon the platform of the device.

Important Aspects of Apache Cordova:

Offers Single Code Base:

Using Cordova Framework, the developer can develop a single mobile app by targeting multiplied platforms.

WebView :

User Interface (UI) of Cordova Application uses WebView. WebView is being practiced in native platforms, as Cordova Libraries can be associated with the native framework.

Plug-in:

Using Cordova Framework, the developers can link Javascript code with native code employing robust plug-ins. Further, developers can avail ready-made plug-ins available, according to their requirements. Each and every plug-in is outlined to Config.xml

Command Line Interface:

To speed up Mobile App Development for creating & deploying various platforms, developers can make use of command line interface (CLI). Usually, for each targeted platform they must install SDK before using CLI.

Listed below are some of the Basic Plug-ins

Universal Links:

This plug-in - used to initiate the application from the browser when the user clicks on the link. Cordova plugin add Cordova-universal-links-plugin

Facebook Plug-in:

This plug-in accepts the advanced Facebook SDK. Cordova application uses the native Facebook app to implement a single sign in, share app, friends invite etc. In case of no facebook app, it applies standard based authentication.

cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-facebook4 -save -variable APP_ID="Appid" -
variable APP_NAME="Appname"

Remote Injection Plug-in:

This plug-in add Cordova and JS into the webview for any unexpectedly browsed page.

Support access to Cordova object and its plug-ins.

Cordova plugin add Cordova-plugin-remote-injection

Social Sharing Plug-in:

Share text, link, images or other files like pdf, ics. and the sharing is directly down to Twitter, Facebook or other apps.

Cordova plugin add Cordova-plugin-x-social sharing

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