I believe you are looking at the wrong config.xml file. You should see it with the plugin feature definitions under the <app> folder. It's a bit confusing but the one you see under www is just likely copied during prepare by the CLI from the top-level www.
-James Jong On Aug 22, 2013, at 7:42 PM, John M. Wargo <jwarg...@gmail.com> wrote: > OK, I just whacked everything and started over. I opened a terminal window on > Macintosh and issued the following commands: > > jmw-mini:~ jwargo$ cd dev > jmw-mini:dev jwargo$ cordova create test > jmw-mini:dev jwargo$ cd test > jmw-mini:test jwargo$ cordova platform add android ios > jmw-mini:test jwargo$ cordova plugin add > https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/cordova-plugin-camera.git > jmw-mini:test jwargo$ cordova prepare android > jmw-mini:test jwargo$ cordova prepare ios > > At the end of the process, I looked at the config.xml in the iOS project's > www folder and found the following: > > <?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?> > <widget id="io.cordova.hellocordova" version="0.0.1" > xmlns="http://www.w3.org/ns/widgets"; > xmlns:cdv="http://cordova.apache.org/ns/1.0";> > <name>HelloCordova</name> > <description> > A sample Apache Cordova application that responds to the deviceready > event. > </description> > <author email="d...@callback.apache.org" href="http://cordova.io";> > Apache Cordova Team > </author> > <content src="index.html" /> > <access origin="*" /> > <preference name="fullscreen" value="true" /> > <preference name="webviewbounce" value="true" /> > </widget> > > I even went in and forced an update to the config.xml in the cordova > project's config.xml file and did another cordova prepare. > > My changes came over to the config.xml, but no camera entry. > > I'm running CLI 3.0.6. > > On 8/22/2013 1:46 PM, Ian Clelland wrote: >> On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 11:11 AM, Braden Shepherdson >> <bra...@chromium.org>wrote: >> >>> Are you sure you ran a "cordova prepare" in both cases? There should be a >>> <feature> tag for Camera on both platforms, as far as I know. >>> >>> >> That was my thinking as well. I checked earlier, and there definitely is a >> feature tag for iOS. (It's the only tag specified in plugin.xml, and it's >> the only required change, according to the docs). I don't think plugin add >> / plugin remove should be manipulating config.xml in the platforms >> directories -- that should be the job of `cordova prepare`. >> >> Ian >> >> On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 7:46 AM, John Wargo <j...@johnwargo.com> wrote: >>>> I'm working on the part of my book that deals with the core APIs and I >>>> need some guidance on how things are supposed to work. >>>> >>>> I noticed that if I added the Camera API plugin to a project, that the >>> CLI >>>> manages adding the camera feature to the android project's config.xml >>> file >>>> in res/xml/config.xml. If I remove the plugin, the settings are removed >>>> from the config.xml. >>>> >>>> The documentation says that a setting is also required for the iOS >>>> config.xml, but in my testing, the CLI doesn't make that change for me. >>> The >>>> Xcode project's config.xml doesn't change as I add and remove the Camera >>>> plugin. >>>> >>>> So am I seeing an anomaly here or is this behavior as expected? I >>> assumed >>>> the CLI would take care of everything, but my testing here says >>> otherwise. >>>> How's this supposed to work or what must the developer do? It doesn't >>> make >>>> sense that the CLI would do this for Android and not iOS. >>>> >
