Chapter 6. Considerations when building mobile apps

This chapter covers

  • Why you should use single-page applications for Cordova development
  • How to make your application work offline
  • How to support different countries with internationalization and localization
  • How to save data to a device

The previous chapter began—perhaps—a bit roughly. We made it plain that while you now know how to create an application on a device, you don’t yet know how to do it well. That’s an incredibly important distinction.

6.1. Congratulations—you’re a (slightly better) mobile developer!

I hope you agree that—for the most part—Cordova is simple to use. If you have even the tiniest bit of JavaScript knowledge you can easily add support for device features like ...

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