Awesome Capacitor

⚡ 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.

Contents

• Official plugins
• Community plugins
• Capgo plugins
• Capawesome plugins
• Transistor Software plugins
• Other plugins
• Cordova plugins
• Tools
• Learning
• Demo apps
• Community
• Freelancers
• Author

Official plugins

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.
• Preferences - Provides a simple key/value persistent store for lightweight data, ex Storage.
• 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.
• 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

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.
• Camera preview - Camera preview.
• Googlemaps - Plugin using native Maps API for Android and iOS.
• Contacts - Contacts Plugin for Capacitor.
• Date picker - Native DateTime Picker Plugin for Capacitor Apps.
• Electron - Support for the Electron platform.
• Facebook Login - A native plugin for Facebook Login.
• File opener - The plugin is able to open a file given the mimeType and the file uri.
• 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.
• 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.
• Media - Enable some media features for Capacitor such as create albums, save videos, gifs and more.
• Microsoft
  • Appcenter - AppCenter SDK.
  • Analytics - AppCenter Analytics.
  • Crashes - AppCenter Crashes.
• Native audio - A native plugin for native audio engine.
• Native market - A native market plugin for linking to google play or app store.
• 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.
• Speech recognition - A native plugin for speech recognition.
• Sqlite - Native & electron SQLite databases.
• 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.
• Websocket - Plugin providing native Websocket implementations for each platform.

Capgo plugins

Plugins owned by Capgo organisation and maintained by @riderx and community member with Open collective .

• Live Update - Live update for capacitor app.
• Crisp - Crisp chat SDK for your app.
• Flash - Switch the Flashlight / Torch of your device.
• Mute - Detect silent mode and mute audio.
• Native audio - Capacitor plugin for native audio engine (fork).
• Native Geocoder - Native forward and reverse geocoding.
• Native market - Capacitor community plugin for native market for Play Store/App Store.
• Screen recorder - Record screen and save to pelicule.
• Purchases - Capacitor in-app purchases and subscriptions made easy with RevenueCat.
• In app Browser - Browser In app browser with urlChangeEvent.
• Camera preview - Capacitor plugin that allows camera interaction from HTML code (fork).

Capawesome plugins

Plugins owned by Capawesome organisation and maintained by @robingenz.

• Background tasks - A native plugin for running background tasks.
• Badge - Access and update the badge number of the app icon.
• 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.
• Screen orientation - Lock/unlock the screen orientation.
• Native updates - Capacitor plugin that assists with app updates.
• File picker - Capacitor plugin that allows the user to select a file.
• Managed configuration - Capacitor plugin to access managed configuration settings.
• Photo editor - Capacitor plugin that allows the user to edit a photo.

Transistor Software plugins

Plugins owned by Transistor Software plugins and maintained by @christocracy.

• Background Geolocation - The most sophisticated background location-tracking & geofencing module with battery-conscious motion-detection intelligence for iOS and Android.
• Background Fetch - Periodic callbacks in the background for both IOS and Android.
• Background Geolocation Firebase - Firebase adapter for Capacitor Background Geolocation.

Other plugins

Independents plugins are listed here.

• Apple Pay - Get Apple Pay payments in your app.

• App Tracking Transparency - Request user authorization to access app-related data for tracking the user or the device. iOS only.

• Brother Print - A native Brother Print SDK implementation for iOS & Android.

• Biometric - Use biometrics confirm device owner presence or authenticate users.

• 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.
  • Camera Preview - Access camera using Dynamsoft Camera Enhancer.
  • Document Normalizer - Scan documents using Dynamsoft Document Normalizer.
  • Label Recognizer - Recognize text on labels like MRZ on passports using Dynamsoft Label Recognizer.

• Email composer - Open a native E-Mail Composer within your Capacitor App.

• Facebook Analytics - Facebook Analytics Plugin for Capacitor.

• Firebase

  • 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.
  • Availability - Verifies that Google Play services is installed and enabled, and request enabling Google Play services on device.
  • Fit - Retrieve data from Google Fit.
  • MlKit Language - Identify the language of a string of text.
  • MlKit Vision - Detect 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.

• 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.

• Playlist - Native support for audio playlists, background support, and lock screen controls.

• 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.

• Screenshot - Take a screenshot of the current view.

• 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-one  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.

• Photo library - Get all the images from system album.

Cordova plugins

Compatible

This list will be upgraded soon

• NPM search

Incompatible

• cordova-plugin-add-swift-support (not needed, Capacitor has built in Swift support)
• cordova-plugin-admobpro (see details)
• cordova-plugin-braintree (see details)
• cordova-plugin-code-push (see details)
• cordova-plugin-compat (not needed)
• cordova-plugin-console (not needed, Capacitor has its own)
• cordova-plugin-crosswalk-webview (Capacitor doesn't allow to change the webview)
• cordova-plugin-fcm (see details)
• cordova-plugin-firebase (see details)
• cordova-plugin-ionic-keyboard (not needed, Capacitor has it's own)
• cordova-plugin-ionic-webview (not needed, Capacitor uses WKWebView)
• cordova-plugin-music-controls (causes build failures, skipped)
• cordova-plugin-qrscanner (see details)
• cordova-plugin-splashscreen (not needed, Capacitor has its own)
• cordova-plugin-statusbar (not needed, Capacitor has its own)
• cordova-plugin-wkwebview-engine (not needed, Capacitor uses WKWebView)
• cordova-plugin-googlemaps (causes build failures on iOS, skipped for iOS only)

Tools

• 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.

Learning

Places to learn about Capacitor

Offical guides

• 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.

Crash Courses

• Capacitor Crash Course - Learn to use Capacitor with Ionic by Simon Grimm.

Community Tutorials

• 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.
• The Push Notifications Guide for Capacitor

Books

• Building cross platform app with Capacitor - A New Approach to Cross-Platform Development.

Case study

• 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.

Demo apps

• 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.

Community

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.

Freelancers

• Martin Donadieu - Creator of this list and of Capgo live update system + 10 plugins.
• Christophe Surbier - Expert developer mobile since 2009 and Capacitor since 2017
• Timothee Porcq - Expert developer Mobile Ionic/Angular & Capacitor +7 years
• Nicolas Izac - Developper Fullstack | Vue-Angular-Ionic-Laravel +7 years

Contributing

Contributions welcome! Read the contribution guidelines - first.

Author

Capgo — Live updates for capacitor