10. Ubuntu Development with Cordova

One of the latest additions to the Cordova family is support for the Ubuntu Touch OS. The team at Canonical (www.canonical.com), the makers of the Ubuntu Linux distribution, jumped in and have implemented pretty complete support for Apache Cordova. In this chapter, I show you how to set up and use a Cordova development environment for Ubuntu Touch devices.

Installing the Cordova CLI on Ubuntu

Even though I walked you through all of the steps required to install the Cordova CLI in Chapter 3, “Configuring a Cordova Development Environment,” that chapter covered only the Windows and OS X installations. The Ubuntu development environment is pretty straightforward to install and doesn’t have any of the extra software ...

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