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Cordova and how plugins work

Cordova is a platform for building Native mobile applications within a single codebase in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Cordova provides support to multiple platforms and plugins. Cordova plugins allow Cordova web view to communicate with Native platforms and then our Ionic application runs inside the web view, so this way we have access to the platform APIs, such as camera, Geolocation, and so on.

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