This document discusses the growth of Cordova/PhoneGap and its community. It announces the release of Cordova 6.0 and tools to improve the development experience like continuous integration. It also introduces an "Ace Plugin" experiment that allows using native UI components in a Cordova app for parts that need native capabilities while still using Cordova for the rest. This provides an "escape hatch" to the native world while keeping the app as a Cordova webview.

2. When last we met our hero…

4. browsers
emulators
devices

5. ALL THE PLATFORMS

6. We’ve been busy.

11. $ cordova platform save
$ cordova plugin save

12. Continuous Integration
Catching plugin bugs in every commit on all the platforms
like a freakin’ venus fly trap.

13. 100s of plugin bugs

14. Cordova 6.0

15. [applause]

16. This affects all of us.
Adobe PhoneGap
Apache Cordova
Cocoon
Framework 7
Ionic Framework
Monaca
IBM MobileFirst
Intel XDK
Meteor
SAP
Telerik
Visual Studio

17. Nearly 200% growth in three years
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70%
PhoneGap/Cordova
Xamarin
Unity
Qt
Adobe Air
Appcelerator
Corona
Marmelade
Codename One
Live Code
2012 2015
Vision Mobile Analysis of Cross-Platform Development, July 2015

18. Where do we go next?

19. 1. Better community == better platform
2. Tools made for mobile development
3. Focus on UX

20. Debug your code on any browser, emulator or device.
Increase speed & accuracy with Intellisense for plugins.
Invoke Cordova commands from the editor.
Visual Studio Code

21. 1. Better community == better platform
2. Tools made for mobile development
3. Focus on UX

22. Apache
Cordova
Native
Experiment

23. Apache
Cordova
Native
Experiment

24. Apache
Cordova
Experiment

25. … Sometimes you may just
need native UI components

26. Not for the entire app,
Just parts of it

27. for a native
side-menu

28. for overlays

29. for page
transitions

30. reuse native
components

31. standardized
native screens

32. An escape hatch to the native world
• Native UI
• Native APIs
• Still Cordova. Still a webview.
• UI defined in XML, AndroidXML or JS
• Available as a Cordova Plugin
• Experimental. Send feedback.

33.  Docked
 Overlays
 Separate, full screen
 Page Transitions
Native UI

34. JavaScript
XML
Android XML
Interface Builder
(NIB/XIB)
var button = new ace.Button();
<Button />
var button;
if (ace.platform == "iOS")
button = new ace.NativeObject("UIButton");
else if (ace.platform == "Android")
button = new ace.NativeObject("android.widget.Button");
<if:iOS>
<ios:UIButton />
</if:iOS>
<if:Android>
<android:Button />
</if:Android>
<Button android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" />
Cross-Platform
(write once)
Platform-Specific
(write twice)

35. http://taco.tools
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