📌 Deprecation Notice
This repository is deprecated and no more work will be done on this by Apache Cordova. You can continue to use this and it should work as-is but any future issues will not be fixed by the Cordova community.
Feel free to fork this repository and improve your fork. Existing forks are listed in Network and Forks.
As an alternative you could use the cordova-electron platform or use cordova-ios to build macOS apps.
CordovaLib is a framework that enables users to include Cordova in their OS X application projects easily, and also create new Cordova based OS X application projects.
Note that the current focus of this cordova platform is to provide kiosk-like applications for OSX, that usually run fullscreen and have little desktop interaction. So there is no direct support for menus, dock integration, finder integration, documents, etc. Think of it as a mobile app running on a very big screen.
Make sure you have installed the latest released OS X SDK which comes with Xcode 6 or later. Download it at https://developer.apple.com/downloads or the Mac App Store.
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(Optionally) Follow the instructions in the Command-Line Usage section of the Cordova Docs to create a new project. For example
$ cordova create hello com.example.hello HelloWorld
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add the osx platform:
$ cordova platform add osx $ cordova run osx
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You can also open the project in XCode:
$ open platforms/osx/<yourproject>.xcodeproj
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for example, if you need the file-plugin do:
$ cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-file
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Download the source
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execute the
create
command to setup an empty project:$ bin/create <path_to_new_project> <package_name> <project_name>
for example
$ bin/create ../Foo org.apache.foo FooBar
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for example, if you need the file-plugin do:
$ cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-file
When you update to a new Cordova version, you may need to update the CordovaLib reference in an existing project. Cordova comes with a script that will help you to do this.
- Launch Terminal.app
- Go to the location where you installed Cordova, in the
bin
sub-folder - Run
update /path/to/your/project
You need to enable the WebDeveloperExtras
for your bundle:
defaults write com.yourcompany.yourbundleid WebKitDeveloperExtras -bool true
After you changed the defatuls, start the application and right-click inside the webview and select Inspect Element. This opens the Safari Developer Tools.
Note: The bundleid is usually the same as your widget id you define in your
config.xml
unless overridden by theios-CFBundleVersion
argument.