Apache Cordova is a platform for building native mobile applications using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. It basically wraps your entire application in a web view and exposes certain native events to the application through JavaScript.
In this recipe, we will emit a message from the server using Socket.IO when the application first opens.
For this recipe, you will need to use a Mac. The reason for this is that Cordova will create an app that runs using XCode, which is only available for the Macintosh operating system.
To throw an alert in a Cordova app when the socket connects, follow these steps:
First, we need to install Cordova. There is a command-line interface that can be installed by running
npm install cordova –g
in your terminal.Next, we need to create a new application using the Cordova command-line interface that we just installed. Cordova can be run with
cordova create app com.throw.alertThrowAlert
. The first argument...