β‘ A curated list of awesome resources related to the Capacitor Platform.
Capacitor is an open-source native runtime for building Web Native apps. Create cross-platform iOS, Android, and Progressive Web Apps with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.
Capacitor is an open-source native runtime for building Web Native apps. Create cross-platform iOS, Android, and Progressive Web Apps with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.
Official plugins for Capacitor and maintained by ionic are listed here.
- Action Sheet - Provides access to native Action Sheets.
- App - Handles high-level App state and events.
- App Launcher - Allows to check if an app can be opened and open it.
- Browser - Provides the ability to open an in-app browser and subscribe to browser events.
- Camera - Provides the ability to take a photo with the camera or choose an existing one from the photo album.
- Clipboard - Enables copy and pasting to/from the system clipboard.
- Device - Exposes internal information about the device, such as the model and operating system version, along with user information such as unique IDs.
- Dialog - Provides methods for triggering native dialog windows for alerts, confirmations, and input prompts.
- File system - Provides a NodeJS-like API for working with files on the device.
- Geolocation - Provides simple methods for getting and tracking the current position of the device using GPS, along with altitude, heading, and speed information if available.
- Haptics - Provides physical feedback to the user through touch or vibration.
- Keyboard - Provides keyboard display and visibility control, along with event tracking when the keyboard shows and hides.
- Local Notifications - Provides a way to schedule device notifications locally (i.e. without a server sending push notifications).
- Motion - Tracks accelerometer and device orientation (compass heading, etc.).
- Network - Provides network and connectivity information.
- Push Notifications - Provides access to native push notifications.
- Screen Reader - Provides access to TalkBack/VoiceOver/etc. and provides simple text-to-speech capabilities for visual accessibility.
- Share - Provides methods for sharing content in any sharing-enabled apps the user may have installed.
- Splash Screen - Provides methods for showing or hiding a Splash image.
- Status Bar - Provides methods for configuring the style of the Status Bar, along with showing or hiding it.
- Storage - Provides a simple key/value persistent store for lightweight data.
- Text Zoom - Provides the ability to change Web View text size for visual accessibility.
- Toast - Provides a native notification pop up for displaying important information to a user.
Community plugins owned by Capacitor organisation and maintained by selected community member are listed here.
- Admob - A native plugin for AdMob.
- App-icon - Capacitor community plugin for changing an app's icon.
- Apple sign in - Capacitor Sign in with Apple.
- Background geolocation - Receive geolocation updates even while app is backgrounded.
- Barcode scanner - A fast and efficient QR / barcode scanner for Capacitor.
- Bluetooth-le - Bluetooth Low Energy.
- Browser react - React Hooks for Capacitor Browser plugin.
- Camera preview - Camera preview.
- Camera react - React Hooks for Capacitor Camera plugin.
- Googlemaps - Plugin using native Maps API for Android and iOS.
- Clipboard react - React Hooks for Capacitor Clipboard plugin.
- Contacts - Contacts Plugin for Capacitor.
- Date picker - Native DateTime Picker Plugin for Capacitor Apps.
- Device react - React Hooks for Capacitor Device plugin.
- Electron
- Electron - Support for the Electron platform.
- Electron core - Core for the Capacitor Community Electron platform.
- Electron platform - Support for the Electron platform.
- Facebook Login - A native plugin for Facebook Login.
- Filesystem-react - React Hooks for Capacitor Filesystem plugin.
- Firebase
- Analytics - A native plugin for Firebase analytics.
- Crashlytics - Firebase Crashlytics.
- Fcm - Enable Firebase Cloud Messaging features for Capacitor apps.
- Remote config - A native plugin for Firebase remote config.
- Flipper - A native plugin for flipper debugger.
- Geolocation react - React Hooks for Capacitor GeoLocation plugin.
- Http - A native HTTP plugin for CORS-free requests and file transfers.
- Intercom - Enable Intercom features for Capacitor apps.
- Keep awake - Prevent your screen from getting some sleep.
- Keyboard react - React Hooks for Capacitor Keyboard plugin.
- Media - Enable some media features for Capacitor such as create albums, save videos, gifs and more.
- Microsoft
- Native audio - A native plugin for native audio engine.
- Native market - A native market plugin for linking to google play or app store.
- Network react - React Hooks for Capacitor Network plugin.
- Photoviewer - PhotoViewer table images with full-screen and sharing capabilities.
- Privacy screen - Protects your app from displaying a screenshot in recents screen/App Switcher.
- React hooks - React Hooks for Capacitor apps.
- Realm - A native plugin for MongoDB Realm.
- Screen brightness - Control screen brightness on iOS and android.
- Screen reader react - React Hooks for Capacitor ScreenReader plugin.
- Speech recognition - A native plugin for speech recognition.
- Sqlite - Native & electron SQLite databases.
- Storage react - React Hooks for Capacitor Storage plugin.
- Stripe - Stripe SDK bindings for Capacitor Applications.
- Tauri - Support for the Tauri platform.
- Text to speech - Synthesizing speech from text.
- Twitter - Enable TwitterKit features for Capacitor.
- Uxcam - UXCam and FullStory analytics. It uses UXCam for Android and iOS platforms and FullStory for Web/PWA.
Independents plugins are listed here.
- OTA Updater - Over the air update for capacitor app.
- App Tracking Transparency - Request user authorization to access app-related data for tracking the user or the device. iOS only.
- Background tasks - A native plugin for running background tasks.
- Badge - Access and update the badge number of the app icon.
- Brother Print - A native Brother Print SDK implementation for iOS & Android.
- Biometric - Use biometrics confirm device owner presence or authenticate users.
- Crisp - Crisp chat SDK for your app.
- Dark mode - Monitor the changes made to system's dark mode.
- Data Storage SQlite - Providing a key-value permanent store for simple data of type string only to SQLite on IOS, Android and Electron platforms and to IndexedDB for the Web platform.
- Document Scanner - Scan documents (notes, homework, business cards, receipts, or anything with a rectangular shape).
- Dynamsoft Barcode Reader - Scan barcodes and QR codes using Dynamsoft Barcode Reader.
- Email composer - Open a native E-Mail Composer within your Capacitor App.
- Facebook Analytics - Facebook Analytics Plugin for Capacitor.
- Flash - Switch the Flashlight / Torch of your device.
- Firebase
- Analytics - Firebase plugins for Capacitor. Supports Android, iOS and the web.
- App - Capacitor plugin for Firebase App.
- Auth - Handle the authentication on Native layer and propagate the token to the web view layer.
- Performance - Capacitor plugin for Firebase Performance Monitoring.
- Crashlytics - Capacitor plugin for Firebase Crashlytics.
- AppCheck - Allows usage of native AppCheck tokens.
- Dynamic Links - Firebase Dynamic Links.
- Push - This Plugin it used for Firebase Push Messages. It support Data.
- File selector - Select files form Android/iOS devices and the web.
- Google
- Auth - Google auth plugin for Capacitor.
- Fit - Retrieve data from Google Fit.
- MlKit Language - Identify the language of a string of text.
- MlKit Vision - Setect faces in an image, identify key facial features, and get the contours of detected faces.
- Healthkit - Retrieve data from HealthKit.
- Intent - Supports multiple broadcast receiving of intents, and sending out BroadcastIntents in Android.
- Jitsi - Make video calls through the free, open-sourced Jitsi video platform.
- Lightsensor - Get the illuminance level on the device.
- Mute - Detect silent mode and mute audio.
- Native settings - Open native settings screens.
- NativeScript
- NativeScript Capacitor - Empower Capacitor with native APIs.
- Augmented Reality - Add AR experiences.
- Navigation bar - Navigation Bar manipulation, hide/show.
- Oauth2 - Generic OAuth 2 client plugin. It let you configure the OAuth parameters yourself instead of using SDKs.
- Print - Print the WebView.
- Rate app - Let users rate your app using native rate app dialog for both Android and iOS.
- Read sms - Read the user's SMS with their permission.
- Screen orientation - Lock/unlock the screen orientation.
- Screenshot - Take a screenshot of the current view.
- Screen recorder - Record screen and save to pelicule.
- Send intent - Expose a listener in your JavaScript application for when another application sends data to your Capacitor application via the Android share menu or share sheet.
- Sentry - Add Sentry error tracking and performance monitoring for Capacitor apps.
- Stripe terminal - Stripe Terminal Plugin for Capacitor.
- Sprig - All-in-oneβ product research platform.
- Square Payments - Enable Square Payments for Capacitor.
- Sumup - SumUp Mobile SDK.
- UDP - Support both IPv6 and IPv4, multicast and broadcast.
- Video player - Play a video full-screen on IOS, Android, Web and Electron platforms.
- Zalo login - Zalo login plugin for Capacitor.
- Purchases - Capacitor in-app purchases and subscriptions made easy with RevenueCat.
- Android dark mode - Capacitor plugin to support dark mode on Android.
- Native updates - Capacitor plugin that assists with app updates.
- File picker - Capacitor plugin that allows the user to select a file.
- Managed configuratio - Capacitor plugin to access managed configuration settings.
- Photo editor - Capacitor plugin that allows the user to edit a photo.
- Photo library - Get all the images from system album.
- Docgen - Docs Readme Markdown and JSON Generator for Capacitor Plugins.
- Plugin generator - Create a new Capacitor plugin.
- Assets - Local Capacitor icon/splash screen resource generation tool.
Places to learn about Capacitor
- How Capacitor Works - Capacitor takes a modern web app, and then packages it up to run on iOS, Android, and PWA.
- Creating Plugins - This guide will help you get started creating a shareable Capacitor plugin which will be published on npm.
- Creating Splash Screens and Icons - Use cordova-res to generate resource images for native projects.
- App Deployment and Realtime Updates - Update your Capacitor app remotely through the app stores.
- CI/CD for Capacitor Apps - Adding Mobile CI/CD to your Capacitor App development process.
- Data Storage in Capacitor - Storing small to large amounts of data in Capacitor.
- Security Best Practices for Capacitor - Security best practices for your Capacitor apps.
- Using Push Notifications with Firebase - Learn how to get Firebase Cloud Messaging working on iOS and Android.
- Saving Plugin Calls - How to save plugin calls in Capacitor.
- Mocking Capacitor Plugins - How to create mock objects for Capacitor plugins.
- Build Mobile Apps with Tailwind CSS, Next.js, Ionic Framework, and Capacitor - A very popular stack for building responsive web apps is Tailwind CSS and Next.js by Vercel.
- Capacitor Crash Course - Learn to use Capacitor with Ionic by Simon Grimm.
- Capacitor Tutorial - Getting Started with Capacitor.
- Adding Icons & Splash Screens to Capacitor - Generating the Icon and Splash Screen Asset.
- Capacitor Workflow in an Ionic Application - Cover the basic workflow when using Capacitor in an Ionic application.
- Creating a Local Plugin - Running Custom Native iOS Code with Capacitor.
- Publishing Capacitor Plugin on NPM - Build and publish a standalone Capacitor plugin using the Capacitor CLI.
- Do Capacitor applications are native ? - Demonstrate why referring to Capacitor applications as "not native" is inaccurate and confusing terminology.
- Appcenter migration - Migrating from Microsoft App Center to Capgo in just a few simple steps.
- Update app seamlessly - Set up Capacitor-updater into your app to seamless releases update to your users.
- Automatic build and release - Create your own CI/CD pipeline with GitHub actions for free, to deploy your app every time you push to main.
- Building cross platform app with Capacitor - A New Approach to Cross-Platform Development.
- Burger King - How Burger King Brought Their Design System to Mobile.
- Capacitor vs Cordova - This guide provides an overview of Capacitor and how it stacks up against Cordova.
- Native React Apps Without React Native - React Native is not a web environment, so it's not possible for teams to take their web-based React to deploy native apps, with Capacitor they can.
- capacitor-testapp - The Capacitor TestApp is used to develop new features and verify bug fixes in Capacitor and the official plugins.
- capacitor-plugin-demo - Simple Ionic Angular app to demonstrate the use of certain Capacitor plugins.
- capacitor-firebase-plugin-demo - Simple Ionic Angular app to demonstrate the use of certain Capacitor Firebase plugins.
- capacitor-updater-plugin-demo - Simple Ionic Vue app to demonstrate the use of OTA updates.
Places to discuss about Capacitor
- Discord - Official Discord community.
- Forum - Official Forum community.
- Reddit - Official Reddit community.
- Stack Overflow - Official Stack Overflow community.
- Proposal - Official repo for plugin and platform requests.
Contributions welcome! Read the contribution guidelines - first.