The JavaScript API documentation for Apache Cordova.
The documentation is available at docs.cordova.io.
All of the Apache Cordova documentation is written with markdown, a lightweight markup language that can be typeset to HTML. Markdown provides a simple and flexible way to document Cordova's core API and platform-specific APIs.
docs/
docs/LANGUAGE
docs/LANGUAGE/VERSION
docs/LANGUAGE/VERSION/cordova/
docs/LANGUAGE/VERSION/cordova/PluginName/
docs/LANGUAGE/VERSION/cordova/PluginName/className.md
docs/LANGUAGE/VERSION/cordova/PluginName/className.functionName.md
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By the way, you rock! Thanks for helping us improve the documentation!
Are you new to Git or contributing on GitHub?
We have written a few Git tutorials to help you get started with contributing to the documentation.
Pull requests are welcome!
We appreciate the use of topic branches.
git checkout -b issue_23
# code
git commit -m "Issue 23: Fix a bad bug."
git push origin issue_23
# send pull request from branch issue_23 to cordova:master
Do you want the Apache Cordova documentation in another language? We do too! With the support of Crowdin, a translation and localization management platform, translators can login to the easy-to-use tooling and provide as much or as little translation assistance as they would like. If you know another language please support Cordova and contribute. http://crowdin.net/project/cordova.
For Cordova language administrators, to add the translations back into git, follow these steps:
1. Create the language directory
# Spanish
mkdir docs/es
2. Add a version
Start with the latest stable release. You can always add other versions later.
mkdir docs/es/1.0.0
3. Begin Translating
Currently, English is the most up-to-date and so it is easiest to copy each English file into the new language directory.
4. config.json
For each version, there is a config.json
that defines the name of the language and
how to merge the files.
5. Customizing HTML template
Each language can override the default template in template/docs/LANGUAGE
.
Please see the STYLESHEET.md
file for guildelines on language and usage.
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Clone joDoc
git clone http://github.com/davebalmer/joDoc.git
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Add joDoc/ to your path
Open
~/.bashrc
or~/.profile
(or whatever you use)export PATH=$PATH:~/path/to/joDoc/
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Install markdown
# OS X brew install markdown # Linux apt-get install markdown
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Install Ruby gems
Install bundler then
bundle install
Generate all versions
bin/generate
Generate a specific language and version
bin/generate en edge
When making minor edits, it is usually safe to simply render the edited from Markdown to HTML. Many code editors have plugins to render Markdown to HTML and there are a handful of good online editors.
Currently, a Ruby script and joDoc are used to generate the HTML documentation.
There is a Rake task to increment the version, generate the version directory, and update the edge documentation.
# generate version 1.7.0
rake version[1.7.0]
If you get the following error:
./bin/../lib/cordova/navigation_menu.rb:14:in `read': can't convert nil into String (TypeError)
from ./bin/../lib/cordova/navigation_menu.rb:14:in `initialize'
from ./bin/../lib/docs_generator.rb:86:in `new'
from ./bin/../lib/docs_generator.rb:86:in `after_jodoc'
from ./bin/../lib/docs_generator.rb:55:in `run'
from ./bin/../lib/docs_generator.rb:45:in `foreach'
from ./bin/../lib/docs_generator.rb:45:in `run'
from ./bin/../lib/docs_generator.rb:41:in `foreach'
from ./bin/../lib/docs_generator.rb:41:in `run'
from ./bin/generate:6
You may need to add the following line to the joDoc script:
$markdown_bin = "/path/to/Markdown.pl";
For more details, see the Issue #590.
If you get the following error:
custom_require.rb:36:in `require': /lib/cordova/jodoc.rb:28: syntax error, unexpected tCONSTANT, expecting ']' (SyntaxError)
@template_directories = [ File.join TEMPLATE_PATH, 'default' ]
^
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You may need to downgrade the version of ruby to 1.8.7 and nokogiri to 1.5.2 Use rvm and the Gemfile provided to install the dependencies
rvm install 1.8.7 rvm use 1.8.7 bundle install