What's New in Apache Cordova 4?

Release StrategyThe Cordova team is constantly working to improve the framework. In the Cordova three timeframe, framework releases were a large deal & appeared on a regular near-monthly cadence. With the later releases, the Cordova team has broken out the different parts in to individual release designs. In lieu of the Cordova core, command-line interfaces (CLIs), & plug-in all being bundled together for a formal release, everything has been broken out in to separate release schedules.

Command-Line InterfacesThe Cordova team is constantly working to improve the

framework. In the Cordova three timeframe, framework releases were a large deal & appeared on a regular near-monthly cadence. With the later releases, the Cordova team has broken out the different parts in to individual release designs. In lieu of the Cordova core, command-line interfaces (CLIs), & plug-in all being bundled together fr a formal release, everything has been broken out in to separate release schedules.

Save/Restore Plugins

With the Cordova CLI four.0 release, the team added commands that permit a developer to store plugin information for the project in the application project's config.xml file. The commands were experimental in that release, so you had to add a special flag on the command line to utilize them, but the capabilities were in place. At the time of writing, this capability was to be moved from experimental status to production.

The WebView is a native application part that renders the net application content in a Cordova application. It is fundamentally a browser window you can embed in a native mobile application. Until recently, Apple and Google implemented the native WebView using a different rendering engine than the present in the native browser

Pluggable WebView

Third-Party Tools Support

Not part of the Cordova release, but fascinating anyway, is how plenty of third parties have added support for Cordova to their products. of the goals of the Cordova CLI is to provide tooling that can be consumed by other tools; Cordova provides the "plumbing," & you use whatever tools you need to code, check, debug, & build your Cordova apps.

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