From the course: Choosing a Cross-Platform Development Tool

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Tools and technologies

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Tools and technologies

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- [Instructor] Cordova is an open source command line tool that enables mobile programmers to build hybrid apps for supported platforms using web technologies instead of platform specific APIs, like those in Android and iOS. Cordova developers can use HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript to build applications. Cordova then converts those applications into native apps for supported platforms. In addition, Cordova provides plugins that make the native capabilities, the built in features of the device, available to the app via JavaScript. At its heart Cordova is really a build tool. As input, it takes a web application and it produces native apps as output. Cordova accomplishes this by enhancing the native web view component on each supported platform. The web view component is built in to each platform and it has access to the underlying system. Cordova establishes a link from the enhanced web view to the system via plugins.

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