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    Bring Apache Cordova support back to Ubuntu Touch?

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      • poVoqP Offline
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        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)?

        Fairphone 5 (waiting for port)

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