In recent years, mobile applications have greatly changed the way we communicate, listen to music, watch movies, follow the news and event the weather forecast and thus became an integral part of our lives to the point that we feel incomplete if we forget our mobile phone at home. Mobile applications are divided into native, web and hybrid applications. Native applications are developed using native programming language of the platform for which they are intended, web applications are most often developed using HTML, CSS and JavaScript and hybrid applications are a combination of native and web applications. Hybrid applications are coded using standard web technologies and by using plugins and special application containers they provide a sense of native application. There are many free and commercial frameworks which can be found on the market, such as Apache Cordova, that are helpful when building a hybrid application. Cordova is a free mobile development framework, owned by Apache, by which we can develop a multi-platform hybrid application using web technologies that are otherwise used to create a web application. Cordova offers a set of plugins, i.e. APIs that provide access to the native features of the device such as camera, location, file system, notifications and battery status. We can develop Apache Cordova application using Cordova CLI or one of many IDEs that make the whole process easier. The theoretical part of the paper describes Apache Cordova and similar development frameworks. The history of Cordova, its architecture, plugins and the installation process of Cordova CLI are also described. The practical part of the paper contains a description of weather application development by using Apache Cordova and Visual Studio. It is described which components need to be installed and the code that allows the application to function is described in detail.