Bartolomeo Sorrentino
He is a Principal Software Architect with over 25 years of experience. He is an active contributor to the open source ecosystem. He leads several OS projects and contributes to many others.
Cordova JSB PLUGIN
Develop Native Plugin using Javascript
by Bartolomeo Sorrentino
twitter: @bsorrentinoJ
CORDOVA PLUGIN
A Cordova plugin bridges a bit of functionality between the WebView and the native platform the Cordova application is running on.
Plugins are composed of a single JavaScript interface used across all platforms, and native implementations following platform-specific Plugin interfaces that the JavaScript will call into.
Cordova PLUGIN
CORdova JSB plugin
Cordova JavaScript Bridge plugin enables the possibility to bridge functionality between the WebView and the native platform using JavaScript instead of native language (eg. ObjectiveC or Java). Such plugin relies upon Javascript Engine available on target OS.
Currently we support only IOS version 7 and above because, from that release, Apple has made available the JavaScript Core framework, an embedded JavaScript engine, outside of the WebView boundaries.
Support for Android has been planned in the next months
Cordova JSB PLUGIN
CORDOVA JSB PLUGIN (IOS7)
Relies on:
JavaScript Core framework (JavaScriptCore.framework) that provides Objective-C wrapper classes for many standard JavaScript objects.
Use:
the JavaScriptBridge project by kishikawakatsumi that provides the way to write a complete iOS apps with JavaScript.
Provides:
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CORDOVA JSB PLUGIN (IOS7)
Provides:
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A common JS (jsbridge.js) that allow to call native javascript functions
- An infrastructure that allow to bundle native javascript stuff together web ones.
Cordova JSB PLUGIN
By Bartolomeo Sorrentino
