Getting started: Creating Ubuntu apps with Cordova

A few weeks ago we participated in Phonegap Day EU. It was a great opportunity to meet with the Cordova development team and we had a range of app developers gather for this occasion.

The latest Ubuntu 16.04 LTS release was demoed, running on a brand new BQ M10 tablet in convergence mode. Creating responsive user interfaces is already a common topic for web developers, and Cordova developers by extension.

On the second day, we hosted a workshop on developing Ubuntu applications with Cordova and popular frameworks like Ionic. Alexandre Abreu also showed his new cordova-plugin-ble-central for Ubuntu. This one lets you connect to an IoT device, like one of those new RPI boards, directly to an Ubuntu app using the Bluetooth Low Energy stack. Snappy, Ubuntu and Cordova all working together !

Last but not least, we started the release process for cordova-ubuntu 4.3.4. This is the latest stable update to the Ubuntu platform support code for Cordova apps. It’s coming along with a set of documentation updates available here and on the upstream cordova doc site.

We’ve also made a video (20 mins) to summarize this and walk you through the first steps of creating your own Ubuntu app using Cordova – which you can view below.

We’d also love to hear from you if you have any ideas especially seeing what you can do with the new release and plugins.

Cordova Ubuntu Demo App on the Store >