Explain the mechanism of Cordova?

Cordova application’s user interface is technically and effectively a webview that engages the entire screen and runs in the native container. So, basically, it is the same webview that the native operating system is using.
Therefore, it means that an only a native container gets modified according to the operating system and internally the web pages remain the same. Since the web browser relinquishing the web pages vary from one operating system to other.

UIWebView class is for iOS android.webkit.webview is for android, WebViewClass is for windows.

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