What is about app splash screen image? Does it belong to <project_dir>/config.XML or <runtime>/config.XML (or both)?
Thx!! Sergey -----Original Message----- From: Axel Nennker [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2014 6:39 PM To: dev Subject: Re: config.xml parsing strategy Its important to distinguish between <project_dir>/config.XML and <runtime>/config.XML Launcher icon is in the first, app preferences in the second Am 25.03.2014 15:32 schrieb "Sergey Grebnov (Akvelon)" < [email protected]>: > Hi, adding more ppl to our discussion with @purplecabbage< > https://github.com/purplecabbage> regarding above > https://github.com/apache/cordova-cli/pull/145 > > Working on icons and splash screen support I've encountered with the > following dilemma. It is easy to add support of the features above as > part of cordova-cli: during prepare step. But ideally (agree w/ Jesse) > this needs to be handled in the platform repo, since projects can be > built outside of the cordova-cli and if the property is in the > application root config.xml it should always be valid. This should be > resolved at runtime. > > This makes our live more complicated since we can't apply some > properties in runtime, for example an icon which is showed before the > app is even started or requires some additional tricks/hacks. So > let's define our strategy. > > > 1. If some preference could be applied in Runtime, then it must be > read from config.xml and applied in runtime. > > 2. If not, or requires dirty hacks (for ex: app icon or default > splash screen) then we should apply such preference during build > > a) Support as part of cordova cli build only OR > > b) Must be implemented as part of platform repo build (applied before > actual build) > > a. On Windows we can use additional cordova/pre_build.bat and > MSBuild Pre-Build event so it will run automatically before every build. > > Any ideas how better to resolve this? How important 2b is? > > Thx! > Sergey > >
