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Learning Ionic - Second Edition
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Learning Ionic - Second Edition

by Arvind Ravulavaru
April 2017
Beginner to intermediate
378 pages
7h 57m
English
Packt Publishing
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What is Apache Cordova?

In simple terms, Cordova is the piece of software that stitches the web application and the native application together. The Apache Cordova website states that:

"Apache Cordova is a platform for building native mobile apps using HTML, CSS and JavaScript."

Apache Cordova does not just stitch the web app with the native app--but it also provides a set of APIs written in JavaScript to interact with the native features of the device. Yes, we can use JavaScript to access our camera, take a picture, and send it in an e-mail. Sounds exciting, right?

To get a better understanding of what is happening, let's take a look at the following screenshot:

As we can see, we have a WebView where the HTML/CSS/JS code gets executed. ...

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