Tag: WebDev

We are happy to announce that we have just released a major update for cordova-plugin-camera! [email protected] To upgrade: cordova plugin remove cordova-plugin-camera cordova plugin add [email protected] Release Highlights This is a major update as it includes some breaking public API mechanisms, for the better! The breaking changes includes: getPicture URI Persistence Optional WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE Additionally the allowEdit feature is now deprecated. See more details.

We are excited to announce the release of cordova-lib. [email protected] To upgrade: If Cordova CLI is installed globally: npm uninstall -g cordova npm install -g cordova@latest If Cordova CLI is installed locally within your project: npm uninstall cordova npm install cordova@latest Release Highlights In this patch release, we have introduced several fixes. The most notable changes are: Ability to install plugins on a prerelease version of a platform. Consistent plugin

We are happy to announce that we have just released an update for cordova-plugin-file! [email protected] To upgrade: cordova plugin remove cordova-plugin-file cordova plugin add [email protected] Release Highlights This patch is a regression fix. See 8.1.1 release blog post for more details. In 8.1.1, the FileEntry.toURL() method broke when used on any file:// that didn't lead to the app's internal assets on Android. This is now corrected. This bug didn't effect iOS devices. Please report any issues you find by following the

We are happy to announce that we have just released an update for cordova-plugin-file! [email protected] To upgrade: cordova plugin remove cordova-plugin-file cordova plugin add [email protected] Release Highlights For Android, we corrected an issue that prevented .toURL() to be used on content:// file entries. Now .toURL() will return a DOM-usable url on both file:// and content:// file entries. This will be important for upcoming releases planned for the Camera plugin. Note that the AndroidInsecureFileModeEnabled preference must be off. If AndroidInsecureFileModeEnabled preference is turned on, the

We are happy to announce that we have just released a beta for the next Cordova iOS version. This is Cordova iOS 8.0.0-beta.1! This is a developer preview of Cordova's supported platforms for building iOS applications. The intention of this beta release is for plugin authors and app developers to test their plugins and projects and provide feedback and bug reports before the final release of Cordova iOS 8.0.0. This version includes several breaking API changes and project structure changes, which is why we are providing this beta release for testing purposes. This beta is not intended to be used for production App Store submissions. [email protected] on npm [email protected] source code For plugin authors, we've written

We are happy to announce that we have just released Cordova iOS 7.1.1! 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 Fixes Properly uninstall plugins with asset tags Fixed issues where plugins were not uninstalling properly if the plugin had <asset> tags defined in plugin.xml. Vers

We are happy to announce that we have just released Cordova Android 13.0.0! This is one of Cordova's supported platforms for building Android applications. [email protected] To upgrade: cordova platform remove android cordova platform add [email protected] To install: cordova platform add [email protected] Release Highlights BREAKING CHANGES Increased Target SDK This release has increased the target SDK to 34 (Android 14). Increased Android Studio Requirement Android

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