Cordova is one of the best hybrid mobile app development frameworks to build mobile apps without any complexity. You don’t need to learn Java, Kotlin, Objective C, Swift, or any hard languages to build your first mobile app. Here we described the steps of building a mobile app with the Cordova framework.
Build Cordova Mobile App
Although you don’t need to know Java, you need some JavaScript, HTML & CSS to build your mobile apps.
Here are the steps to build your first hybrid mobile app
Pre-requisites
- Node.js
- Android Studio – Although we don’t program in android, we need this for building Android App. It has some build tools, SDKs
1. Installing Cordova
npm install -g cordova
2. Creating New App with Cordova
cordova create MyApp
3. Creating Platforms
cordova platform add browser
cordova platform add android
4. Build your Simple Mobile with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
Here we build our first mobile app in HTML. We can just build a simple HTML webpage for this.
5. Test Run on Browser
cordova run browser
6. Run your Cordova App in Mobile Emulator
cordova emulate android
7. Build Your First Mobile App
cordova build --release
7b. Build Android App with ARM (Alternative Method to Build)
build cordova apk --target-platform android-arm,android-arm64,android-x64 --split-per-abi
Finally, We just built our first Android App with Cordova. We will continue with the Playstore publishing steps soon.