Experience with the JS API and Cordova

[HolgerSchade2]

Hi,

just for my own curiosity. Has anyone been using the JS API in conjunction with APACHE cordova for multiplatform app development?

What was your experience? Would you recommend this? Have you been using the feature service sync capabilities to create partially connected/offline apps? If you used Sync Services how did you display the maps from the local synchronized database data or map-tile data?

It would be great if you could share your experience 🙂

[AndyGup · Accepted solution]

This is a significantly delayed answered. However for the benefit of everyone asking similar questions, the answer is 'yes' there are shops world-wide using the ArcGIS API for JavaScript with Cordova and PhoneGap.

PhoneGap is Adobe's port of Apache's open source Cordova project​ and PhoneGap comes with extra bells and whistles such as a cloud-builder tool. Applications built using Cordova/PhoneGap are often referred to as Hybrid applications - that is JavaScript applications wrapped in a native container. These applications run on a chrome-less browser within the native runtime. It's quite possible that a popular consumer app that you use is built on a hybrid platform.

Here are some reference materials:

• DevSummit Presentation - ArcGIS API for JavaScript: Building Native Apps using PhoneGap and JQuery​
• Github project demonstrating how to use an ArcGIS JS API app within the PhoneGap/Cordova life-cycle - quickstart-map-phonegap​
• API-based github project that provides a scaffolding for JS shops that have offline requirements - offline-editor-js​
• Blog - What all mobile developers should know about PhoneGap​
• Blog - Does PhoneGap improve geolocation?​