Plans for Cordova support for HTML5 webapps?
asked 2014-01-08 16:03:20 +0300
Apache Cordova (formerly known as PhoneGap) provides mujlti-platform device APIs important to developers of mobile webapps and supported on the main mobile platforms. Are there any plans to make the Sailfish browser a supported platform for Cordova, allowing webapp developers to easily target Jolla phones?
I realise the primary app development environment is Qt/QML but support of multi-platform HTML5 apps would be very useful.
Isn't this something community can work on too, if there is interest?
Jukka ( 2014-01-30 13:13:53 +0300 )edit@Jukka I am not part of the Cordova development community but I think the answer is no.
From a technical point of view, I believe it requires a well-defined native code extension mechanism in the browser. Is that available for Sailfish browser?
And I think that in order to get existing Cordova developers to work on Sailfish they would want to see a commitment from Jolla to Cordova (and probably practical assistance such as phones). I have no information on this but it looks to me like that is the way Tizen support has been added.
I may be completely wrong, of course, and I welcome correction from someone more knowledgeable.
gcobb ( 2014-01-30 13:47:21 +0300 )editJust looking at https://github.com/apache/cordova-qt, it seems somebody could port it over to Sailfish and try. Then it can be added to Sailfish OS potentially too.
Jukka ( 2014-01-30 13:51:04 +0300 )editOriginal comment deleted: I had just thought about maybe using the Qt support but Jukka was way ahead of me!
gcobb ( 2014-01-30 14:01:40 +0300 )editAre there any news updates for this functionality? Since SailfishOS 2.0 is out now it could be a killer functionality for the tablet and a nice feature for the phone...
PatsJolla ( 2015-09-24 16:55:06 +0300 )edit