Features/Cordova Container for Sugar

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Summary

The cordova container for sugar would help us access all the native device functionalities through the cordova layer.This basically corresponds to the fact that we shall be able to support the cross platform apps. A cordova app which uses some camera feature in android would be able to do same in sugar using the same code.So the developers dont need to recode their apps to get them to the sugar environment.All their apps for the IOS, windows , android etc would work in sugar through the cordova api.

Owner

  • Name: Lionel Laske
  • Email: lionel@olpc-france.org

Current status

  • Targeted release: 0.104
  • Last updated: 25th July,2014
  • Percentage of completion: XX%

Detailed Description

Cordova is basically used as a middle layer between the web app and the native source code. This layer abstracts the native source code by providing its own api which can be used to access most of the functionality features of the native source code.So basically we can access the low lying features( features closer to hardware) through the web app.This enables the developers to keep the same code at top and achieve the same functionality from different platforms.Thus, the web app developers dont need to change their app's code to port it to different platforms if the app is made with cordova and the platform on which he has to port supports cordova.Thus, cordova helps us to make cross platforms apps.This will attract the web app developers to sugar community and help them launch their activities in sugar without playing or learning the native bindings.

Benefit to Sugar

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UI Design

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How To Test

Features/Cordova Container for Sugar/Testing

User Experience

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Dependencies

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