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Simon MacDonald
simonmacdonald.com
@macdonst
What's the difference between PhoneGap, Ionic and Cordova?
PhoneGap

What's New in Plugins?
Boy, have we got plugins.
Creative SDK Plugins



Image Editor
Adobe Single Sign On
Send To Desktop
Coming Next in Creative SDK Plugins
- Asset Browser
- CocoaPod Support
- Inclusion in the PG Dev App

Push Plugin


Android N
iOS 10
Browser Push



Coming Next in the Push Plugin
- 1.9.0: Switched to using CocoaPod dependencies for GCM
- 2.0.0: Move to Firebase Cloud Messaging
PG Dev App



Barcode Scanner
Social Sharing
PG Desktop App

Embedded Workflow


Cordova Decoupling
Apache Cordova

What's new in Cordova
Improved template support
supports package.json!
Creating a template

index.js should export a reference to template_src and package.json should reference index.js.
Template discoverability

use the template reference repo as starting point
Using Templates
- find a template on npm using cordova:template keyword
- cordova create MyApp --template TemplateName || gitURL
cordova create split out of cordova-lib
cordova fetch split out of cordova-lib
- replaces npm cache add with npm install
- Uses your system npm
- cordova platform add android --save --fetch
Cordova nightlies
- cordova
- cordova-lib
- cordova-android
- cordova-ios
- cordova-windows
npm install cordova@nightly
CocoaPod Support

<framework src="GoogleCloudMessaging" type="podspec" spec="~> 1.2.0"/>
How it works
- checks if cocoapods is installed
- runs pod install to download dependencies
- Manges dupes
Available since
cordova-ios@4.3.0
New cordovaDependencies object in package.json for plugins

Dependency may be cordova-cli, cordova-platform, or a cordova plugin
cordova plugin add PluginName --save will auto fetch the best version from npm based on your apps dependencies
Whats next?
cordova 7
- fetch by default
- browserify by default
- save/restore moving over to package.json
Better document how to add a new platform (platform API)
Remove restriction of new platforms needing to be in our platform list
Contributing
We have 60 git repos for our project
Find them at https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf or on our Github mirrors
Check out http://cordova.apache.org/contribute/ for more info.
What's New in Apache Cordova/PhoneGap
By Simon MacDonald
What's New in Apache Cordova/PhoneGap
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