Thank you all for the comments. I think that Andrew is right and the best approach would be to implement it inside plugman. I have created a new JIRA issue and intend to start working on it: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-6698
I suggest the syntax in plugin.xml to be <framework src="path/to/library" />. Do you think that it will be good to require specification of the "custom=true" attribute or not? -----Original Message----- From: agri...@google.com [mailto:agri...@google.com] On Behalf Of Andrew Grieve Sent: Monday, May 12, 2014 5:35 PM To: dev Subject: Re: Plugman support for Android libraries Adding library support would be a definite win. "android update project" is what we use in our create / update script right now, and it has the side-effect of creating duplicate library entries each time you update your project. Writing logic to manually edit the project.properties file would be better I think. On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 2:55 AM, Martin Bektchiev < martin.bektch...@telerik.com> wrote: > Hi guys, > > I want to ask you for ideas about how would it be best to solve an issue > that I'm facing. Sometimes a plugin's implementation depends on a native > library, but there's no easy way to embed it as a .jar file in Android if > the library has resources. Let's take > https://github.com/phonegap/phonegap-facebook-plugin and > https://github.com/wildabeast/BarcodeScanner for example. The former one > can't be automatically installed and requires manually adding the > FacebookSDK library. While the latter one relies on a gross hack which > copies the resource files to the Cordova application project and then > dynamically finds their IDs instead of using the R.* class. This is far > from optimal because it makes updating the underlying library a lot more > difficult, adds a lot of overhead in the plugin.xml file, adds performance > overhead at runtime for retrieving the IDs and most importantly doesn't > always work (e.g. the plugin installation will fail if the app itself > contains a res/values/colors.xml file). > > Instead of these approaches it would be much better if plugman was capable > of adding library references itself. How do you think that this should be > implemented? Is it a good idea to use the framework tag? Should the > implementation depend on calling "android update project" or would it be > better to directly edit the project.properties file? > > Any ideas and suggestions will be more than welcome! Looking forward to > your thoughts! > > Best regards, > Martin Bektchiev >
