Ubuntu Platform

Ubuntu Platform Guide

This guide shows how to set up a development environment for creating Cordova applications for Ubuntu.

You will need an Ubuntu system for building applications, either running natively or in a virtual machine. You will also need an Ubuntu phone for testing your application, though an emulator can be used for basic verifications.

Development Platform Requirements

Minimum and Recommended Versions

Developing Cordova apps requires a system running Ubuntu.

The recommended environment is Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, running NodeJS 4.2.x and NPM 2.15.x.

Packages are still available for systems running the previous LTS release (14.04) but some components like NodeJS or phablet-shell may not support all of the latest options.

The target environment is an Ubuntu phone, supporting at least the ubuntu-sdk-api-15.04 fram