ugliest-todo-cordova

Ugly Cordova To-Do App

This guide will get you up and running creating a mobile app using only static JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. The app will be complete with user accounts and end-to-end encrypted user data persistence.

It will be virtually identical to our other ugly to-do apps you may be familiar with, the difference being that the final product will be a native iOS or Android app.

Create a Cordova App

Follow the steps here to create your first Cordova app. The platforms we'll be targeting are ios and android.

A warning: if you're new to Cordova, it could take a bit to get all the dependencies set up, but once set up, you'll be slinging mobile apps in no time.

Install the Userbase plugin

cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-userbase

Overwrite the www/index.html file

Copy the index.html file in this repo at ./www/index.html, and overwrite the one in your mock Cordova app.

Set your App ID

Create a free Userbase admin account. In your Userbase admin account, you will find a Trial app. Get its App ID, and replace line 54 of the index.html file with it:

...

function onDeviceReady() {
  userbase.init({ appId: '<YOUR APP ID>' })

...

And you're ready!

Build and run the app:

cordova build
cordova run android
cordova run ios

Misc.

Check out the Userbase quickstart for finer details on writing the index.html file from scratch. It explains each section of the code step-by-step. The only differences between this repo's index.html file and the index.html file in the quickstart are:

• The script tag at the top - this repo's index.html uses cordova.js to load the Userbase plugin.
• The onDeviceReady event listener - Cordova fires this once it finishes setting up the app.