A few of us are still actively trying to build a template open source application with Cordova. It’s simple to create the buttons and take pictures with the THETA.
One of the challenges, we are having is display of the 360 images. Although, I have successfully used A-Frame to build hybrid mobile apps with Crosswalk, I’ve been struggling with Cordova. I recently read this blog, “WebVR and PhoneGap”, where the author said:
The two major mobile operating systems (iOS and Android) already support WebGL – iOS since iOS 8, and Google in Chrome. PhoneGap support for WebVR should be fine in Android 7.0 Nougat and above, anything below that will require the Crosswalk plugin.
Android 7.0 Nougat is fairly new and not supported on my phone.
According to Fossbytes, Nougat accounts for less than 16% of the market.
The current version of Android is 8.0 Oreo, but the only phones with that support are Pixel phones.
I’m going to try development using an Android 8.0 AVD first and then if it works, try and port the app to work with older versions of Android.
If anyone has a working version, of a Cordova THETA app on Android with 360 image navigation, let me know.
Update: 7/31/2018