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    Bring Apache Cordova support back to Ubuntu Touch?

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    • poVoq
      poVoq last edited by poVoq

      Seems a real pity that both Apache and Ubports seems to have dropped Cordova support for UT.

      There is an slightly fixed version here:
      https://github.com/bhdouglass/cordova-ubuntu (based on Cordova 4.8?)
      From @bhdouglass

      and an App that still uses it:
      https://github.com/milikhin/seabass
      https://open-store.io/app/seabass.mikhael

      And according to the official Cordova documentation support was dropped sometimes between version 7.x and 9.x:
      https://cordova.apache.org/docs/en/7.x/guide/platforms/ubuntu/index.html
      https://docs.ubuntu.com/phone/en/apps/html-5/guides-cordova-guide

      I know that UT has it's own simple way of running webapps, but running offline HTML5 apps with some advanced features is quite a pain in it, and many advanced web-apps (uMastonauts etc.) are trying to make their own qt based wrappers, basically re-implementing a large part of what Cordova could offer.

      In addition Cordova apps are much more easily portable between platforms (Android / iOS) and there is even a recent electron based Desktop support for it. Yes, hybrid apps have disadvantages, but they also have many positive aspects... no need to discuss this here 😉

      So maybe this would be worth picking up again and maybe even get upstream support? I guess they mainly dropped it because there was no maintainer for it, so is there anyone in this community interested (and with the skills)?

      OnePlus3 (dev)

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