Including Plugins with Cordova Command Line Interface 5

You may have noticed that things have changed up a bit as of Cordova CLI 5.0.0 release. Specifically, we are now encouraging the the use of <plugin> tags in your config.xml file over the previously used <feature> tags.

You may be wondering why you should use the <plugin> tag. The main reason is that when you use the <plugin> tag it will fetch and install the plugin for you during the cordova prepare phase of building your project.

So if you have the following feature tags in your current config.xml:

<feature name="org.apache.cordova.file">
    <param name="id" value="org.apache.cordova.file@1.0.1"/>
</feature>
<feature name="org.apache.cordova.file-transfer">
    <param name="id" value="org.apache.cordova.file-transfer@0.4.2"/>
</feature>
<feature name="org.apache.cordova.device">
    <param name="id" value="org.apache.cordova.device@0.2.8"/>
</feature>
<feature name="com.telerik.plugins.nativepagetransitions">
    <param name="id" value="https://github.com/Telerik-Verified-Plugins/NativePageTransitions#0.2.11"/>
</feature>
<feature name="com.phonegap.plugins.pushplugin">
    <param name="id" value="https://github.com/phonegap-build/PushPlugin#1979d972b6ab37e28cf2077bc7ebfe706cc4dacd"/>
</feature>

Then you'd just replace it with:

<plugin name="cordova-plugin-file" spec="^2.0.0" />
<plugin name="cordova-plugin-file-transfer" spec="^1.0.0" />
<plugin name="cordova-plugin-device" spec="^1.0.0" />
<plugin name="com.telerik.plugins.nativepagetransitions" spec="https://github.com/Telerik-Verified-Plugins/NativePageTransitions#0.2.11" />
<plugin name="com.phonegap.plugins.pushplugin" spec="https://github.com/phonegap-build/PushPlugin#1979d972b6ab37e28cf2077bc7ebfe706cc4dacd" />

You may have noticed that the package ID for org.apache.cordova.file has changed to cordova-plugin-file. The is part of the way plugins are now hosted on npm. You'll notice that all the core plugins (org.apache.cordova) have been renamed (see table below).

For non-core plugins you can still download them from a git repository. In order to specify a specific version you use #versionNumber for example, NativePageTransistion above or to download from a specific commit use #commitHash for example, PushPlugin above.

Old ID	NPM ID
org.apache.cordova.battery-status	cordova-plugin-battery-status
org.apache.cordova.camera	cordova-plugin-camera
org.apache.cordova.contacts	cordova-plugin-contacts
org.apache.cordova.device	cordova-plugin-device
org.apache.cordova.device-motion	cordova-plugin-device-motion
org.apache.cordova.device-orientation	cordova-plugin-device-orientation
org.apache.cordova.dialogs	cordova-plugin-dialogs
org.apache.cordova.file	cordova-plugin-file
org.apache.cordova.file-transfer	cordova-plugin-file-transfer
org.apache.cordova.geolocation	cordova-plugin-geolocation
org.apache.cordova.globalization	cordova-plugin-globalization
org.apache.cordova.inappbrowser	cordova-plugin-inappbrowser
org.apache.cordova.media-capture	cordova-plugin-media-capture
org.apache.cordova.media	cordova-plugin-media
org.apache.cordova.network-information	cordova-plugin-network-information
org.apache.cordova.splashscreen	cordova-plugin-splashscreen
org.apache.cordova.statusbar	cordova-plugin-statusbar
org.apache.cordova.whitelist	cordova-plugin-whitelist
org.apache.cordova.vibration	cordova-plugin-vibration

Mud Hero 2015

 

So last Saturday Anna and I participated in the Mud Hero Ottawa run. It was an absolute blast as you can probably tell by looking at the smiles on our faces. We took a bunch of pictures during the day which I have in an album over here.

First up Anna ran the kids course which was three 500 meter laps with 6 obstacles. The announcer constantly mentioned to parents to make sure that the kids schools were on tight or else they would lose them in the mud pit. Predictably, this led to a bunch of parents having to dig in the mud pit for their child's missing shoe.

Anna escaped with both of her shoes but as you can see she got super muddy which I encouraged whole heartedly.

Then I finally had my chance to run the 6km course with 20 obstacles with my buddy Hicham and one of his neighbours. There were some really fun obstacles like walls, tires, ropes, slides but by far the most fun was the waist deep (or deeper) mud. You can see in this pic I've just come down the slide and luckily retrieved my hat from the mud puddle.

After the race the team from Muscle Mlk was there to hand out ready to drink protein shakes. I don't know if it was because I just ran 6km but that was the best vanilla shake I've had in a long time.

For anyone who is interested in these types of races I can offer a few tips:

1. Bring a complete change of clothes including shoes. You will not want to put your muddy shoes on after getting clean.
2. Wear non-cotton underwear. You really need something that isn't going to trap in a pound of dirt in your skivvies. 
3. Bring a big fluffy towel to get warm. The "showers" are generally hoses of cold water so you will go from being over heated to freezing in no time. The fluffy towel will help.

Next up is the Bad Ass Dash on July 18th in Nepean. Anyone interested in joining?

Video of PhoneGap Day EU 2015 - Push N' Pull Presentation

The video for my Push N' Pull presentation is now available.



If you want to get a copy of the slides please check out my previous post.