16. Creating Cordova Plugins
So far we’ve talked a lot about the tools and plugins that are part of the Cordova framework, but what if you want to do something within a Cordova application that isn’t exposed through one of the existing plugins (either core plugins or third-party plugins)? Well, you will have to go it alone and build your own plugins. In this chapter, I show you how to create your own plugins for Apache Cordova.
Cordova plugins are not new. They’ve been around for a long time, but starting with Cordova 3.0 and through the capabilities provided by Plugman and the Cordova CLI, plug-ins changed dramatically. They became more prevalent, plus more standardized in their implementation.
In this chapter, I show you how to create two plugins, ...
Get Apache Cordova 4 Programming now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
