Tag: WebDev

We are happy to announce that we have just released Cordova Android 14.0.0! 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 35 (Android 15). Project Dependencies The following Gradle de

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 This major release primarily focused on ensuring that the plugin complies with Android's new strict permission requirements. Specifically, it removes unnecessary permissions such as: android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE android.permission.RECORD_AUDIO Additiona

We are happy to announce that [email protected] has been released. This is one of the libraries used behind-the-scenes by nearly all of the Cordova tooling and provides utilities for dealing with things like config.xml parsing. Release Highlights The most notable changes in this patch release were updates to the dependencies used by this tool. Some dependencies were replaced with Node internals, reducing the overall dependency requirements. Changes include: Chores: GH-222 chore: bump npm dependencies to current minor revisions GH-217 chore(deps): bump cross-spawn from 7.0.3 to 7.0.6 GH-214 chore(deps): bump micromatch from 4.0.5 to 4.0.8

We kicked off 2025 with a very successful virtual meetup! Thank you to everyone who attended, and a huge thanks to Bryan Ellis (@erisu) for preparing and hosting the meeting. We had over 100 registrations and more than 60 attendees. The recording is available on YouTube, and you can find the slides here. Bryan provided a recap of 2024, summarizing Cordova releases and milestones, and shared some plans for the current year. As always, we can't provide exact timelines since our work is entirely volunteer-driven. However, if you’d like to help us achieve our goals, you can start contributing at any time! We also have plans for additional meetups to make contributing even more accessible. Stay tuned for more details!

The beginning of a new year is always a good opportunity for a project to reflect on the past year and make plans for the one ahead. As we wrapped up 2024, we had an idea that we’re excited to share: hosting another community meetup for Cordova. This meetup will be an excellent chance to recap the recent releases and highlight some upcoming tasks. 2024 saw some promising contributions from new developers, and we’ve noticed growing interest in our project. This makes the meetup the perfect time to onboard new contributors and strengthen our community. Without more committers, it will become increasingly challenging to maintain a steady release cycle and address the needs of our users. By bringing together experienced contributors and newcomers, we aim to foster collaboration and make future releases smoother. The release process is vital but can often feel overwhelming within the ASF framework. To address this, we are exploring ways to simplify it and provide clea

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 fixes an issue with FileEntry.toURL() on iOS devices when the app is hosted through schemes. The intent for this API is to produce a URL that can be used in the DOM, like image tags for example. However, iOS devices always produced file:// URIs which is not usable when the webview is configured to use schemes. Starting with 8.1.3, FileEntry.toURL() will produce an app-scheme URI if the iOS webview is configured to use app schemes, or a

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