App Development With Apache Cordova

A presentation on Apache Cordova, held for the Darmstadt Designer & Developer Meetup.

1. Apache Cordova
2. Your experiences?
3. What is Cordova?
4. Create (cross-platform) apps with
5. Platform Support
6. How does it work?
7. Development approaches Cordova CLI Platform-specific
8. Phone OS App Container WebView
9. ➜ cordova create darmstadt developer.meetup DemoApp ➜ cd darmstadt ➜ cordova platform add ios ➜ cordova build ➜ cordova emulate Demo Time!
10. Pros & Cons
11. What’s great?
12. Well-known 
 web technologies
13. One codebase, 
 many platforms
14. Rapid prototyping
15. Use plugins to access
 native device functions
16. Ecosystem
17. You can “go native”
18. What isn’t?
19. Non-native Look+Feel*
20. Limited access to native functionality
21. Performance *
22. Is cross-platform better than native?
23. Yes. No. Sometimes!
24. Thank you! @beheist bastian.heist@sandstorm.de