Advantages
- Apache Cordova relies on popular languages, such as: CSS3, HTML5 and JavaScript
- Thanks to its popularity and the fact that it is open source, a large developer community has grown, which can provide advice and answers to almost any issue
- The framework receives constant updates
- Although it’s mostly based on web technologies, the framework supports most hardware capabilities of a phone, such as: Accelerometer, GPS, Camera, Geo-location, Files etc.
- A developer can upload an app made with Apache Cordova to both Play Store and App Store
Disadvantages
- Even though the framework it’s open source and the community is pretty large, expert development companies are very scarce
- Unlike some of its direct competitors, Adobe does not offer much direct professional support
- The plugins don’t have (for the most part) detailed description about them, and this means that it will take a while until the plugin is fully integrated into the framework
Development tools
- Visual Studio
- Eclipse
- NetBeans
Versions
- Cordova Android
- Cordova BlackBerry
- Cordova Browser
- Cordova FirefoxOS
- Cordova iOS
- Cordova OSX
- Cordova Ubuntu
- Cordova Windows
- Cordova WebOS
