Cordova brings web techniques and expertise to mobile development, allowing developers to create applications starting from a web page, using JavaScript and html.

Cordova plugins allow access to hardware features, like compass, accelerometer and camera. Plugins are organized in a public browsable archive at cordova.apache.org.

The main problem solved by Cordova is multiplatform development, because frees the user from the need to have two or more sets of language and platform skills in the team.

Industry support is strong, with backers like Microsoft and Adobe. Microsoft has a site dedicated to Cordova tools (http://taco.visualstudio.com). Adobe supports the project as Phonegap, its commercial name. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Data presentation with Cordova is very easy, but if you bump into a problem that is not solved by standard techniques or existing plugins, your schedule will be on the same time span of a nativa application.

Plugin development is cumbersome and more complicated than native development, because many factors are involved and developers will find themselves debugging at two different levels with two different sets of skills, languages and development tools at once. Doing native development vanishes the main advantages of Cordova. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Write once, deploy everywhere. This is the main reason that makes use Cordova. Developing mobile apps is just so fun with the web stak (html/css/javascript). In addition to that, the community around Cordova is really mature that it is always easy to find solution when you are stuck. The number of plugins around Cordova is so huge so I could always find what I needed for all my project. And last but not the least, the advent of ionic framework gives a great platform which really ease the development process for cordova developers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Performance was always the main issue with Cordova, and yes I encounter some issue with that for some kind of device. Some plugin are also under maintained so sometimes you encounter some difficulties debugging them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The quantity of plugins available and the simplicity usage of the majority plugins. It fit very well with Ionic framework. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The quality of some plugins aren't really good. Some are not maintained anymore, others aren't complete. It seem pretty complicated to contribute to a plugins development. Also, the plugins documentations are some time too weak or incomplete. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The title says it all. Best thing is that you can code once and run it in multiple platforms. Cordova provides plugins that interface your code with native features from several mobile platforms. And you don't need to learn anything new since you can use your javascript skills. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Its not much of a dislike but a fact: since cordova adds more layers to the code, the performance is not as good as a native app. This can be noticed more clearly in older and low-end devices. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Cordova is a tool that allows a developer to create a single application in JavaScript that will work on multiple platforms. Instead of writing an app in native code for a particular platform, you write a single app in JavaScript and deploy to iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Blackberry, and others. The idea is fantastic and, for the most part, this works quite nicely. There are a couple of quirks with particular platforms, but that is to be expected. The benefit here is the saving of time and money to deploy to an environment which requires different platforms. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There is a lot of confusion around Cordova and "PhoneGap." Essentially, PhoneGap is built on top of Cordova. A lot of the technologies are interchangeable and work together. However, it can still be very confusing, especially when viewing documentation online. PhoneGap itself released a blog post that explains the differences between the two (here: http://phonegap.com/2012/03/19/phonegap-cordova-and-what%E2%80%99s-in-a-name/). Cordova is the platform to use moving forward. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

With the advent of Cordova, the implementation of a native app has become much easier.

A full Stack Javascript developer I can now develop server-side apis and multiple interfaces including web, mobile web, and now a hybrid/native app using Cordova with the same languages.

This allows both freelancers and businesses to create hybrid/native apps with one code base and limited resources. The native plugins are another feature that makes Apache Cordova stand out. The fact that a Javascript developer like myself can access the native phone components through Cordova's plugin API gives me power with the Javascript language that I wouldn't have expected to have.

If I already have a web/mobile web application that needs an app replica, or extension, I can expedite the implementation by using the same codebase.

Another auspicious perquisite is that there is no need for me to learn multiple programming languages in order to deploy a cross platform mobile app. It supports several different platforms. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The only things that I dislike would be the documentation. I would like to see the documentation improved. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Apache Cordova can reduce my frustration working separately on different platform which is not economical friendly. What's more, since the communities that use Apache Cordova become large, many Cordova plugins are developed and shared as an open source. That makes my app development becoming a lot easier. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The core Apache Cordova is still a bit complicated to comprehend. It is not so difficult to use it, but to get to know its core libraries requires a huge amount of effort. Also, using Webview seems to be okay for simple mobile application; however, the performance is still far below when what I've expected. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I really like the time you save when you are trying to show an MVP to your partners. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes you have to use external modules to perform some tasks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like the fact that this product makes it possible to use the, already familiar web stack to author native apps. This one and done approach allows the entire development process to be more agile. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The performance on web view hybrid apps is a turn off at times and the fact that debugging the apps becomes more difficult. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The possibility of using native mobile functions while programming in JavaScript code. Also, I can manke my own cordova plugin for any custom thing a need to do. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The low documentation about making plugins. Would be greate if the Cordova team could document something like that. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.