Apache Cordova is a platform
for building native mobile
applications using HTML, CSS
and JavaScript
Apache Cordova is a set of device APIs that allow a mobile app developer to access native device function such as the camera or accelerometer from JavaScript. Combined with a UI framework such as jQuery Mobile or Dojo, this allows a smartphone app to be developed with just HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
When using the Cordova APIs, an app can be built without any native code (Java, Objective-C, etc) from the app developer. Instead, web technologies are used, and they are hosted in the app itself locally (generally not on a remote http server).
And because these JavaScript APIs are consistent across multiple device platforms and built on web standards, the app should be portable to other device platforms with minimal to no changes.
Apps using Cordova are still packaged as apps using the platform SDKs, and can be made available for installation from each device's app store.
Cordova provides a set of uniform JavaScript libraries that can be invoked, with device-specific native backing code for those JavaScript libraries. Cordova is available for the following platforms: iOS, Android, Blackberry, Windows Phone, Palm WebOS, Bada, and Symbian.
Apache Cordova is an effort undergoing incubation at The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), sponsored by the Apache Incubator project. Incubation is required of all newly accepted projects until a further review indicates that the infrastructure, communications, and decision making process have stabilized in a manner consistent with other successful ASF projects. While incubation status is not necessarily a reflection of the completeness or stability of the code, it does indicate that the project has yet to be fully endorsed by the ASF.
If you make significant contributions, or get invited as a committer, please sign and submit an ICLA.
The JIRA issue tracker and the dev mailing list are good places to identify areas to help out in.
Search the issue tracker:
Next, clone the git repository for the project you are wishing to contribute to (see below). We recommend employing a certain type of git workflow, please see our wiki article for more information.
Finally, to share your changes with the community, you can send a pull request on GitHub to the Apache git mirrors. You can also advocate for your changes directly on our mailing list.
For detailed instruction on how to contribute for a specific platform / topic, choose from below:
Dev mailing list is a place for discussion about Apache Cordova projects.
Commits mailing list tracks commit logs for Apache Cordova repos.
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