Chapter 5. Diving Deeper into the Cordova API

In this chapter, we will continue our journey in the Apache Cordova API by exploring the remaining main features of the Cordova Exhibition app. You will learn how to work with Cordova's media, file, capture, notification, and storage APIs. You will also learn how to utilize the Apache Cordova events in your Cordova mobile app.

Media, file, and capture

The media plugin provides the ability to record and play back audio files on a device.

In order to use the media plugin in our Apache Cordova project, we need to use the following cordova plugin add command:

> cordova plugin add https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/cordova-plugin-media.git

The capture plugin provides access to the device's audio, image, ...

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