--- description: Tutorials, guides, and updates for Capacitor development. Live Updates, plugins, Ionic, and cross-platform app development. title: Blog – Capacitor Tutorials, Guides, and Updates - Capawesome image: https://capawesome.io/docs/assets/images/social/blog/index.png --- [ Skip to content](#blog) [ 🔐 Introducing the **Capacitor Vault** plugin — store secrets behind biometrics or a device passcode.](/blog/announcing-the-capacitor-vault-plugin/) * [ Formbricks ](/docs/plugins/formbricks/) * [ Geocoder ](/docs/plugins/geocoder/) * [ Google Sign-In ](/docs/plugins/google-sign-in/) * [ Grafana Faro ](/docs/plugins/grafana-faro/) * [ libSQL ](/docs/plugins/libsql/) * [ Live Update ](/docs/plugins/live-update/) * [ Managed Configurations ](/docs/plugins/managed-configurations/) * [ Media Session ](/docs/plugins/media-session/) * [ ML Kit ](/docs/plugins/mlkit/) * [ Navigation Bar ](/docs/plugins/navigation-bar/) * [ NFC ](/docs/plugins/nfc/) * [ OAuth ](/docs/plugins/oauth/) * [ Pedometer ](/docs/plugins/pedometer/) * [ Photo Editor ](/docs/plugins/photo-editor/) * [ PostHog ](/docs/plugins/posthog/) * [ Printer ](/docs/plugins/printer/) * [ Purchases ](/docs/plugins/purchases/) * [ RealtimeKit ](/docs/plugins/realtimekit/) * [ Screen Orientation ](/docs/plugins/screen-orientation/) * [ Screenshot ](/docs/plugins/screenshot/) * [ Secure Preferences ](/docs/plugins/secure-preferences/) * [ Speech Recognition ](/docs/plugins/speech-recognition/) * [ Speech Synthesis ](/docs/plugins/speech-synthesis/) * [ Share Target ](/docs/plugins/share-target/) * [ Square Mobile Payments ](/docs/plugins/square-mobile-payments/) * [ SQLite ](/docs/plugins/sqlite/) * [ Superwall ](/docs/plugins/superwall/) * [ Torch ](/docs/plugins/torch/) * [ Vault ](/docs/plugins/vault/) * [ Wifi ](/docs/plugins/wifi/) * [ Zip ](/docs/plugins/zip/) * [ Cloud ](/docs/cloud/) * [ Live Updates ](/docs/cloud/live-updates/) * Advanced * Integrations * [ Native Builds ](/docs/cloud/native-builds/) * [ Configuration ](/docs/cloud/native-builds/configuration/) * [ Environments ](/docs/cloud/native-builds/environments/) * Guides * [ Sample Projects ](/docs/cloud/native-builds/sample-projects/) * [ Troubleshooting ](/docs/cloud/native-builds/troubleshooting/) * [ Automations ](/docs/cloud/automations/) * [ Assist ](/docs/cloud/assist/) * Account * Organizations * [ Organization and User Management ](/docs/cloud/organizations/memberships/) * [ Single Sign-On (SSO) ](/docs/cloud/organizations/sso/) * [ Teams ](/docs/cloud/organizations/teams/) * [ Two-Factor Authentication ](/docs/cloud/organizations/two-factor-authentication/) * [ Integrations ](/docs/cloud/integrations/) * [ License Keys ](/docs/cloud/license-keys/) * [ Webhooks ](/docs/cloud/webhooks/) * [ Pricing ](https://capawesome.io/pricing/) * [ FAQ ](/docs/cloud/faq/) * [ Support ](/docs/cloud/support/) * [ Contributing ](/docs/contributing/) * [ LLMs ](/docs/llms/) * [ Insiders ](/docs/insiders/) * [ License ](https://capawesome.io/legal/eula/) * [ Support ](/docs/insiders/support/) * [ FAQ ](/docs/insiders/faq/) * [ Blog ](/blog/) * Categories ## [Introducing Capawesome Platform: The Mobile App Platform for Modern Teams](/blog/announcing-capawesome-platform/) Today we're launching **Capawesome Platform** — Capawesome Cloud and Insider SDKs unified under one brand, one website, one onboarding flow, and one pricing system. It's the biggest change we've ever made, and almost every detail of it came directly from your feedback. Welcome to the new [capawesome.io](/). --- ## [Build & Ship iOS Apps with Bitbucket Pipelines](/blog/build-and-deploy-ios-apps-with-bitbucket/) Bitbucket Pipelines is a solid CI/CD home for your backend, your web app, and your tests. Then you try to build your iOS app and hit a wall: Atlassian's hosted runners are Linux containers, and there's no macOS image to pick. iOS builds need Xcode, and Xcode needs a Mac. This guide shows you how to close that gap — building, signing, and shipping iOS apps straight from your existing Bitbucket pipeline, without owning a single Mac. ## [What's New in Capacitor 8.4.0: SystemBars, getDouble & packageOptions](/blog/whats-new-in-capacitor-8-4-0/) Capacitor 8.4.0 is out, and most of the work targets clean Android edge-to-edge: three `SystemBars` fixes tighten safe-area behavior. The release also adds a `getDouble` config getter and an experimental CLI option that untangles Swift Package Manager identity collisions, including one our own team ran into. ## [Announcing the Capacitor Vault Plugin](/blog/announcing-the-capacitor-vault-plugin/) Today we are excited to announce our brand new [Capacitor Vault plugin](/docs/plugins/vault/). It lets you store secrets behind an explicit biometric or device-passcode unlock — the foundation for password managers, authenticator apps, banking apps, and any app-lock screen. The plugin ships with multi-vault support, configurable auto-lock, hardware-backed encryption, and full cross-platform parity across Android, iOS, and Web. It is available now to all Capawesome [Insiders](/docs/insiders/). ## [Build and Deploy iOS Apps with GitLab CI/CD](/blog/build-and-deploy-ios-apps-with-gitlab-ci-cd/) GitLab CI/CD is happy to build your backend, your web app, and your Android binaries on the shared Linux runners you already have. Then you try to add an iOS build, and the pipeline grinds to a halt: there's no `xcodebuild` on Linux, and suddenly you're shopping for a macOS runner. In this guide, we'll show you how to keep your GitLab pipeline exactly where it is and still ship a signed iOS app to TestFlight and the App Store — without registering, renting, or babysitting a single Mac. ## [Capacitor Edge-to-Edge & Safe Areas: The Complete Guide](/blog/capacitor-edge-to-edge-and-safe-areas-guide/) Edge-to-edge has been one of the rougher edges of building with Capacitor for the past two years. Status bars hiding the top of your header, navigation gestures obscuring buttons, an Android plugin patched into every project just to make insets work — most teams ended up with a workaround instead of a real solution. That story changed quietly between Capacitor 8.3.0 and 8.3.2\. The framework now ships proper edge-to-edge support out of the box on both platforms, and the third-party plugin most projects relied on has moved from "recommended" to "fallback for special cases." This guide is the up-to-date playbook: what the platforms expect, what Capacitor finally fixed, and the small set of CSS you actually need to write today. ## [Built to Last: The Capawesome Story](/blog/built-to-last-the-capawesome-story/) If you've been following the [Ionic Appflow](/blog/alternative-to-appflow/) news, you're not alone in feeling unsettled. Last year, Ionic announced the end of their commercial products by late 2027, and over the past few weeks we've had more calls than ever with teams asking us the same question, sometimes directly, sometimes carefully: _"What's to say you won't do the same thing in two years?"_ It's a fair question. And it deserves a real answer. ## [The Best CI/CD Platforms for Cordova Apps in 2026](/blog/comparing-ci-cd-platforms-for-cordova-apps/) Five years ago, [Cordova](/technologies/cordova/) teams had a comfortable pick of managed CI/CD platforms built specifically for them. Today, that pick has shrunk. Microsoft App Center is retired. Ionic Appflow is winding down. The generalist CI/CD platforms that remain still build Cordova apps, but they treat Cordova as one framework among many — not as a first-class target with managed Live Updates and Cordova-aware tooling. This post compares the CI/CD platforms still standing for Apache Cordova in 2026, with verified facts about each one's current Cordova support, signing model, update delivery story, and long-term outlook. ## [The Modern CI/CD Solution for Cordova Apps in 2026](/blog/ci-cd-for-cordova-apps/) [Apache Cordova](/technologies/cordova/) is not dead. A lot of teams still run production apps on it — internal tools, regulated industry apps, large consumer apps that simply work. What is dying is the infrastructure around Cordova. App Center is gone. Ionic Appflow is winding down. Other CI/CD platforms have quietly moved Cordova builders to "best effort" status or removed them entirely. That leaves Cordova teams in an awkward spot: the framework still works, but the tooling that used to ship it doesn't. This post walks through how [Capawesome Cloud](/) fills that gap with a CI/CD platform that treats Apache Cordova as a first-class target, not a legacy edge case. ## [Announcing Capawesome Cloud Assist: AI-Powered Troubleshooting](/blog/announcing-capawesome-cloud-assist/) Builds break. Logs are long. We've all been there: a mobile build goes red, and the next ten minutes are spent scrolling through 800 lines of Gradle, Xcode, or npm noise trying to spot the actual error. Today we're introducing **Capawesome Cloud Assist** — a new AI surface inside the Cloud Console — and the first feature shipping under it is **Ask AI**: one click on any failed build or deployment turns those logs into a clear summary with a suggested fix, without leaving the dashboard. Back to top