In the short term you can look at how BlackBerry uses the 'objects' and 'merges' objects in the platform file to do complete replacement or api level overrides. On Mar 19, 2012 9:46 AM, "Becky Gibson" <[email protected]> wrote:
> What is the plan for the device specific APIs that have existed in the > platform JS files? For example, iOS has a more efficient api for watching > the compass heading, watchHeadingFilter and clearWatchFilter. iOS also > has apis for bringing up the native contact picker to display, select or > edit a contact. Are we still going to provide those in the device > specific js files? Will they become "general" plugins? Perhaps an optional > "core" plugin? I don't think we should lose this functionality and it > should somehow be available with 1.6. > > -becky >
