Apache Cordova allows for building native mobile applications using HTML, CSS and JavaScript. This tool helps with management of multi-platform Cordova applications as well as Cordova plugin integration.

Check out the Getting Started guides for more details on how to work with Cordova sub-projects.

Supported Cordova Platforms

• Amazon Fire OS


• Android


• BlackBerry 10


• iOS


• Ubuntu


• Windows Phone 8


• Windows 8

Requirements

• Node.js


• SDKs for each platform you wish to support:
  
  
  
  • Android: Android SDK - NOTE This tool will not work unless you have the absolute latest updates for all Android SDK components. Also you will need the SDK's tools and platform-tools directories on your system path otherwise Android support will fail.
  
  
  • amazon-fireos: Amazon Fire OS SDK - NOTE This tool will not work unless you have Android SDK installed and paths are updated as mentioned above. In addition you need to install AmazonWebView SDK and copy awv_interface.jar on Mac/Linux system to ~/.cordova/lib/commonlibs folder or on Windows %USERPROFILE%/.cordova/lib/coomonlibs. If commonlibs folder does not exist then create one.
  
  
  • Windows Phone SDK - NOTE This tool will not work unless you have msbuild on your system path otherwise Windows Phone support will fail (msbuild.exe is generally located in C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319).
  
  
  • BlackBerry 10: BlackBerry 10 WebWorks SDK. Make sure you have the dependencies/tools/bin folder inside the SDK directory added to your path!
  
  
  • iOS: iOS SDK with the latest Xcode and Xcode Command Line Tools
  
  
  • Windows Phone: Windows Phone SDK - NOTE This tool will not work unless you have msbuild on your system path otherwise Windows Phone support will fail (msbuild.exe is generally located in C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319).
  
  
  
  

cordova-cli has been tested on Mac OS X, Linux, Windows 7, and Windows 8.

Please note that some platforms have OS restrictions. For example, you cannot build for Windows 8 or Windows Phone 8 on Mac OS X, nor can you build for iOS on Windows.