Tag: WebDev

We are happy to announce that we have just released Cordova iOS 7.1.0! This is one of Cordova's supported platforms for building iOS applications. [email protected] To upgrade: cordova platform remove ios cordova platform add [email protected] To install: cordova platform add [email protected] Release Highlights Features SplashScreenBackgroundColor preference support This preference allows you to set the splashscreen's background colour. If no SplashScreenBackgroundColor is provided, it will fall back to the

We are happy to announce that we have just released Cordova Electron 4.0.0! This is one of Cordova's supported platforms for building Electron applications. [email protected] To upgrade: cordova platform remove electron cordova platform add [email protected] To install: cordova platform add [email protected] Release Highlights Some of the notable breaking changes in this release are: Node.js Requirement: This release requires the environment to have Node.js 18.0.0 or higher. It is recommended to use the current

Thank you very much for taking part in our user & contributor survey. We received 228 submissions. Let's dive straight into the data. This survey got over 200 responses and considering only a fraction of people who actually see the survey will respond, there are probably quite a lot of happy Cordova users and new and long-running app projects out there. We got some good feedback of the most requested improvements and biggest pain points. Usage Obviously almost all respondents work with Cordova and the most used platforms are Android (97.4%), iOS (89%), Browser (21.1%) and Electron (7%). Windows and macOS Catalyst got only a handful of responses in total. Build apps with access to native features not yet present in the web platform The top 3 reasons for picking Cordova are

The Apache Cordova projects wants to understand the users and contributors better. Therefore, we invite you take part in a short survey for app developers and contributors of Cordova plugins. The survey questions are designed to not contain any personal information and can be answered anonymously. Please take note that the survey is using Google Forms to process the responses. The Google privacy policy is applicable for the data processed. Take survey Thank you very much for taking part in this survey. The goal of this survey is to identify areas that can be improved by the Cordova community together. The survey is open from now on to December 24, 2023. The results will be shared on the Cordova blog.

We are happy to announce that we have just released an update to cordova-plugin-inappbrowser! [email protected] Release Highlights This is a new major version with breaking changes which requires at least [email protected] and [email protected]. Make sure to check and update your platforms. The most notable improvements in this major release are: Permission requests for Android Removal of deprecated code and platforms Make WebView inspectable on iOS Make system open tel, sms, mailto and geo links on iOS Please report any issues you find on GitHub! Changes include:

We are happy to announce that we have just released an update for cordova-plugin-geolocation! [email protected] To upgrade: cordova plugin remove cordova-plugin-geolocation cordova plugin add [email protected] Release Highlights Breaking Changes Modern JavaScript The JavaScript of the plugin has been upgraded to use ES6 features, such as let and const. NOTE: This release has failed to upgrade required engines. Despite the declared requirement on cordova-android >= 6.3.0 and no declared requirement on iOS, the new minimum requirements will be: cordova-ios

We are happy to announce that we have just released an update for the following plugins! [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] To upgrade: cordova plugin remove cordova-plugin-camera cordova plugin add [email protected] cordova plugin remove cordova-plugin-media cordova plugin add [email protected] cordova plugin remove cordova-plugin-file-transfer cordova plugin add [email protected] Release Highlights cordova-plugin-camera Android 13 Supp

We are happy to announce that we have just released Cordova iOS 7.0.1! This is one of Cordova's supported platforms for building iOS applications. [email protected] Release Highlights To upgrade: cordova platform remove ios cordova platform add [email protected] To install: cordova platform add [email protected] Fixes: Building on Xcode 11 Cordova-iOS 7 is documented to support Xcode 11 and later. However, due to recent changes to support LimitsNavigationsToAppBoundDomains, builds fail on Xcode 11. To address th

We are happy to announce that we have just released Cordova Android 12.0.1! This is one of Cordova's supported platforms for building Android applications. [email protected] Release Highlights To upgrade: cordova platform remove android cordova platform add [email protected] To install: cordova platform add [email protected] Fixes: Adaptive Icon Fix In Cordova-Android 12.0.0, an issue arose with the introduction of Android 13's Themed Icons support. This issue resulted in adaptive icons not being gene

We are happy to announce that we have just released an update for cordova-plugin-media-capture! [email protected] To upgrade: cordova plugin remove cordova-plugin-media-capture cordova plugin add [email protected] Release Highlights Breaking Changes Android 13+ Support Beginning from Android 13 (SDK 33), the READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE permission no longer has any effect. Instead, this permission has been replaced with more granular permissions: READ_MEDIA_IMAGES, READ_MEDIA_VIDEO, and READ_MEDIA_AUDIO. Also the WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE has