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Jeffrey Skinner
Jeffrey Skinner

Reputation: 160

I am developing an app and would like cordova functionality when using the browser as well in this case spesifically chrome

Want to be able to deploy my app to Firebase and use Cordova functionality in the browser. Get an error that cordova_not_available when opening the firebase website.

To be able to run Cordova on the browser in this case chrome in the first place I added the browser platform to my project and the use the Cordova run command instead of serve.

But when I deploy to the website I get the Cordova not available error

Upvotes: 0

Views: 130

Answers (2)

Nidhin Joseph
Nidhin Joseph

Reputation: 10237

You can use the cordova-browser platform to run in any modern browser. More info

Now, when you run for a browser, you need to keep in mind to

  1. include cordova.js in your index.html
  2. include plugins which also support a browser platform. (most plugins support ios and android, so heads up on this)

Device plugin is one such plugin which supports a browser platform. Have a look at this video on how you can configure and run device plugin with Cordova on chrome.

Specific to your case, more chances that you get the error cordova not available is because you might have missed adding cordova.js to your index.html file.

Upvotes: 2

Frank van Puffelen
Frank van Puffelen

Reputation: 598787

Cordova functionality is only available in Cordova, not in a standalone browser. See https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/pwa-how-to-access-cordova-plugins-in-pwa-web-applications/147575

Firebase Hosting hosts web sites, not Cordova apps. The latter are run as native apps on your device, providing extra native functionality to your JavaScript code. A lot of that functionality is these days also available directly in browser APIs, but it may have a different form there. You'll have to look at each piece of functionality in turn, and possibly reimplement it using native APIs for the web platform.

Upvotes: 1

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