Cordova command line interface tool
npm install cordova
> The command line tool to build, deploy and manage Cordova-based applications.
Apache Cordova allows for building native mobile applications using HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
This tool helps with management of multi-platform Cordova applications as well as Cordova plugin integration.
In your command-line on Windows:
``bash`
c:\> npm install -g cordova
In your terminal on Mac OS X/Linux:
`bash`
$sudo npm install -g cordova
This simple example demonstrates how Cordova CLI can be used to create a myApp project with the camera plugin and run it for android platform:
`bash`
cordova create myApp com.myCompany.myApp myApp
cd myApp
cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-camera --save
cordova platform add android --save
cordova requirements android
cordova build android --verbose
cordova run android
- [Overview of Cordova]
- [Create your first Cordova app] guide
- [Full reference docs for Cordova CLI][Reference docs] has details of commands to add platforms, add plugins, build, package, and sign your HTML, JS apps.
- Cordova allows you to build apps for a number of platforms. Learn more about our [Supported platforms].
- [Project directory structure] documents the details of the directory structure created by Cordova CLI.
Cordova is an open source Apache project and contributors are needed to keep this project moving forward. Learn more on
[how to contribute on our website][contribute].
If you find issues with the Cordova CLI, please follow our guidelines for [reporting issues]. Please bear in mind that most of cordova-cli`'s functionality is implemented in [cordova-lib], so that could be the place to report your issue.
Platform-specific issues should be reported in the relevant repositories, such as [cordova-android] and [cordova-ios].
[Overview of Cordova]: http://cordova.apache.org/docs/en/latest/guide/overview/
[Create your first Cordova app]: http://cordova.apache.org/docs/en/latest/guide/cli/index.html
[Reference docs]: http://cordova.apache.org/docs/en/latest/cordova-cli/index.html
[Supported platforms]: http://cordova.apache.org/docs/en/latest/guide/support/index.html
[Project directory structure]: http://cordova.apache.org/docs/en/latest/cordova-cli/index.html#directory-structure
[Contribute]: http://cordova.apache.org/contribute/
[Reporting issues]: http://cordova.apache.org/contribute/issues.html
[cordova-lib]: https://github.com/apache/cordova-lib
[cordova-android]: https://github.com/apache/cordova-android
[cordova-ios]: https://github.com/apache/cordova-ios