Cordova JSB PLUGIN

Develop Native Plugin using Javascript

by Bartolomeo Sorrentino

blog: http://soulsoftware-bsc.blogspot.it/

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:

A common JS (jsbridge.js) that allow to call native javascript functions
An infrastructure that allow to bundle native javascript stuff together web ones.