Episode #103: Building Mobile Apps with Capacitor
Mike Hartington is back to talk about building mobile apps with Capacitor. What is Capacitor? How does it handle data like contacts or geofencing? What's the difference between Cordova and Capacitor? Can you use Capacitor with Vue? Can you bring your own framework? Why bother with Capacitor instead of building native.
Recording date: 9/4/2020
John Papa @John_Papa
Ward Bell @WardBell
Dan Wahlin @DanWahlin
Craig Shoemaker @craigshoemaker
Mike Hartington @MHartington
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Resources:
- Bet on the Web
- Capacitor
- Native React Apps without React Native
- Geolocation on capacitor
- Geolocation on CanIUse.com
- What is Geofence
- Apache Cordova
- Cordova vs Capacitor
- Capacitor and Storage
- IndexedDb
- jQuery
- jQuery 2006
- Progressive Web Apps (PWA)
- "Hand Covers Bruise"
- Capacitor For Vue
- Capacitor for Ember
Timejumps
- 02:03 Talking podcasting
- 05:49 What is Capacitor?
- 12:20 Exporting contacts data
- 13:39 Sponsor: Ag Grid
- 14:36 Geofencing
- 17:54 What's the difference between Cordova and Capacitor?
- 22:04 How does Capacitor deal with storage?
- 30:53 Sponsor: Nrwl
- 31:23 Can I use Capacitor with Vue?
- 37:14 Can you bring your own framework?
- 41:36 Why bother with Capicator instead of building native?
- 45:55 Final thoughts
Podcast editing on this episode done by Chris Enns of Lemon Productions.