Building mobile app using Cordova and AngularJS, common practices Goran Kopevski Agenda ● What is cordova? ● How to choose proper JS framework ● Building mobile app using Cordova and AngularJS ● Common fails, performance issues ● Improve your development What is Cordova ● Set of device APIs that allow a mobile app developer to access native device function ● A web app that is executed in webview of a mobile app Difference between Cordova and Phonegap ● PhoneGap is a distribution of Apache Cordova ● You can think of Apache Cordova as the engine that powers PhoneGap, similar to how WebKit is the engine that powers Chrome or Safari Cordova plugins? How they compare with native app ● Bridge between native API with web frontend ● Plugin is a bit of add-on code that provides an interface to native components Native app Hybrid cordova app Simplified When to use cordova? ● Before starting the project and making the architecture ask yourself this: Am I going to end up writing too many plugins? ○ If YES go NATIVE ○ If NO go Cordova We do not want cordova if we end like this!!!