I thought this killed it: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/appcenter/announcing-apache-cordova-retirement/
When the owner of github turns it's back on a tech it's probably a good idea to ask why You may only be interested in developing iphone apps but Google has Android 13 deploying now (I just bought a new Pixel 6a 3 days ago and rooted it, and it's updated to Android 13) and Google also recently released a statement that once a year they are going to be deprecating apps from the PlayStore that don't meet current API level. And they change API levels at least once a year it seems. Cordova is not at that API level yet. I think most mobile app developers who need cross-platform who are windows-centric devs are using Xamarin and Linux devs are using Flutter but that's just my impression. Personally when I built my last mobile apps I eschewed iphone support and built Android apps using Android Studio and the tutorials on Google's website to do it. While iphones are hugely popular in the United States they are a minority phone in the rest of the world (yeah I know I'm going to get a bunch of people screaming at me for that) Plus, in my humble opinion, the most interesting apps (to me) are lower level networking apps and you cannot build a packet-flooder that will run on an iphone (well, at least not on one that's not jailbroken) while you can for Android (provided it's rooted). I don't think a lot of people realize but once you root an Android phone you can compile C apps directly on Linux into binaries that will run on the phone, I've done it. I just have a "thing" about being able to turn off all the crapware that Apple and Google like to load on phones. It's MY phone, dammit, not their device they can use to track me. Apple acts completely insane about jailbroken phones and goes on a rampage anytime someone figures out how to do it and has been known to push OTA updates that brick jailbroken phone, while Android ecosystem is pretty supportive of rooted phones, as long as you are willing to buy them not get some carrier to give you a "free phone" So I don't have much use for the iphone and little interest in making one of my Android apps run on one. Ted -----Original Message----- From: PLUG <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Jake Bottero Sent: Friday, March 24, 2023 12:41 AM To: Portland Linux/Unix Group <[email protected]> Subject: [PLUG] Apache Cordova Anyone use Apache Cordova to build phone apps? Opinions?
