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Creating an Interactive Voice Experience with Amazon Alexa
Introduced in 2015, Amazon Echo is a wireless speaker and microphone device that allows users to interact with online services by voice. Alexa is the name of the speech service that p...
In AWS, Serverless, IoT, Alexa, Python,
Biting into TACO, Microsoft's Enhanced Cordova CLI
Tools to streamline developer workflow when building Apache Cordova hybrid apps have been improving steadily since the introduction of the Cordova Command Line Interface (CLI) a few y...
In JavaScript, Microsoft, Cordova,
Cross Platform Cordova App Development with Merges
A major benefit of using Apache Cordova to build apps is that it provides a “write once, run many” solution to reusing application logic and design across the mobile platforms that it...
In JavaScript, Cordova, DevOps, Android, iOS,
Writing a Cordova Plugin in Swift for iOS
Since the App Store first opened in 2008, developers wishing to build iOS apps have been required to learn Objective-C. This includes those choosing the hybrid model with Apache Cordo...
In JavaScript, Cordova, iOS, Swift,
Supporting the Browser Platform in a Cordova Plugin
When building a Cordova hybrid app, the most common use case for adding or developing plugins is to access native device functionality not normally available to the JavaScript runtime...
In JavaScript, Cordova,
Plugin Authoring for iOS and Android in Cordova 6
Plugins are used with Apache Cordova / Adobe PhoneGap to extend the platform’s functionality so that it can communicate with native device APIs not normally accessible through a web v...
In JavaScript, Cordova, Android, iOS,
New in Cordova 6: App Templates Using Git
Apache Cordova version 6.0.0 was released today at PhoneGap Day 2016 in Utah. Along with the usual bug fixes, platform and plugin upgrades, a new feature was added to the Cordova CLI ...
In JavaScript, Cordova, GitHub,
368.64, a Pac-Man Ghost Mosaic
One of the things I find deeply dissatisfying about writing software for a living is that there’s no physical form to it. This often means it is difficult to explain what I have been ...
In Design, Pac-Man, Hobbies,
Managing Cordova App Version and Build Numbers in CI Environments
As the Cordova CLI tooling has matured, I’ve been using it more and more on projects in a Continuous Integration environment. I’ve mostly been using the Jenkins Continuous Integration...
In DevOps, Cordova, iOS,
Cordova 5 & iOS 9 Security Policy Changes
Cordova 5 was introduced earlier this year, and we’d recommend using it for any new Cordova app development as it contains improvements to developer workflow, bug fixes, performance e...
In JavaScript, Cordova, iOS,
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