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Capacitor

Explore Capacitor as a cross-platform native runtime within the Ionic ecosystem. Understand how it enables access to native device features across iOS, Android, and Progressive Web Apps, and how it integrates with popular front-end frameworks to create universal applications. Gain insight into its current plugin capabilities and limitations compared to Cordova, preparing you to leverage Capacitor in your app development projects.

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What is Capacitor?

Billing itself as a cross-platform native runtime for web apps, Capacitor is designed to run across iOS, Android, and Progressive Web Apps. It is seen by the team at Ionic as a successor to Apache Cordova.

Like Apache Cordova, the Capacitor plugin ...