The users I've been hearing from that want Froyo also want iOS 4.3 and in some
cases 4.2. What hit me is that even if we do keep Froyo in Cordova, it's not
going to solve the same problem for iOS. Support in Cordova for iOS 4.x is
already gone and not coming back. So at the end of the day,
It seems that part of the problem here is that there is a industrial
developer community that we do not have good data about. What about polling
that community specifically to get usage numbers and version support for
apps not deployed through the store? That data could be used to augment the
I actually like the idea of extending this into a general developer survey
-- something that we could run every year, and get a better feel for the
entire community.
What versions of Cordova/PhoneGap are you using?
What devices are you targetting?
What is your quest?
How many apps are you
We run survey's like these all the time for the PhoneGap distribution.
While a useful indicator there is some big responsibility with this
data that should be taken into consideration. If we pursue surveying
and other metrics it should be kept private to the PMC.
The original goal of the project
There is a window of device OS's that Cordova supports, from the
latest-and-greatest, to some number of levels back. As Cordova picks up new
device OS's, old ones drop away, and the window tends to a standard size.
I'm hearing from customers that use Cordova in large Asian markets that public
I completely understand this argument, but there is one angle that makes this
very murky, and I think talks mostly to Marcel's argument: Enterprise.
I deal with this everyday, trying to get any sort of metric around Enterprise
apps. It is almost impossible. But the anecdotal evidence from our
I always forget about enterprise until Kevin Hawkins from Salesforce brings
up some enterprise-y issues. Which reminds me of a conversation I had with
a Cordova dev/shop that is still using BB 5.0 Cordova for banking apps in
Nigeria (their platform is used by a majority of banks there). Because
