Yes, it is but it only runs on an emulator which has an API-19 level OS. At the 
very least we'll need to run tests on marshamallow OS emulator/device.

From what I understood, marshamallow will break a number of plugins as we make 
those fixes it will be great to see those tests pass. 

Thanks,
Nikhil


-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Bowser [mailto:bows...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, September 9, 2015 8:28 AM
To: dev@cordova.apache.org
Subject: Re: Marshmallow Update and Cordova-Android 5.0

Android is already there, isn't it?

On Tue, Sep 8, 2015, 9:16 PM Nikhil Khandelwal <nikhi...@microsoft.com>
wrote:

> It would be great to add this platform matrix to our buildbot CI. Any 
> volunteers?
>
> -Nikhil
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Karen Tran [mailto:ktop...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Monday, September 7, 2015 7:32 PM
> To: dev@cordova.apache.org
> Subject: Re: Marshmallow Update and Cordova-Android 5.0
>
> I tested your camera plugin through mobilespec and the permissions are 
> working.
>
> On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 12:10 PM, Joe Bowser <bows...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 8:07 AM Karen Tran <ktop...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Joe,
> > >
> > > I tested your patch and it works for the most part using 
> > > mobilespec's manual test for contacts. I do see the prompt for 
> > > permissions contacts,
> > but
> > > not explicitly to read or write contacts like you mentioned.
> > >
> > > I don't either, even though I'm explicitly promoting for the
> permission.
> > Also, I found that if you prompt for READ permissions, you get both 
> > READ and WRITE.
> >
> >
> > > One thing that doesn't work is if you click "Deny" permission, the 
> > > app crashes. I don't think we'd want that to happen, so we'll have 
> > > to handle that case.
> > >
> >
> > It should work now.  I forgot to return out of the method once the 
> > permission is denied.
> >
> >
> > >
> > > And as for the contact autotests, they're a bit finicky now with a 
> > > couple of failures.
> > >
> >
> > Contacts has always been finicky, and needs a full re-write.  I 
> > wasn't intending to fully fix this plugin (because of time), just 
> > get the permissions working because it's the low hanging fruit.  Any 
> > change to the flow of the tests will break the tests because of 
> > concurrency issues with the Android Contacts API.
> >
> > I also have the Camera using the plugin, since we rely on external 
> > storage for determining whether we're going to produce duplicates.
> >
> > https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3a%2f%2fgit
> > hu 
> > b.com%2finfil00p%2fcordova-plugin-camera%2ftree%2fsmores&data=01%7c0
> > 1%
> > 7cnikhilkh%40microsoft.com%7c30099748db0849137b6b08d2b7f5b4e5%7c72f9
> > 88
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> >
> >
> >
> > > On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 9:39 AM, Carlos Santana 
> > > <csantan...@gmail.com>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > Joe I understand the feeling. One part of me saying that we 
> > > > should name
> > > the
> > > > version 4.2 since there are no API changes.
> > > > But my other part says that if developer's ignore because is 4.x 
> > > > stuff
> > > will
> > > > break in new major release of Android M (23)
> > > >
> > > > I would say that also agree that best option is to name is
> > > > cordova-android@5
> > > > , then is clear to developers that they can use targetsdk=23 and 
> > > > also
> > new
> > > > major versions for the affected plugins that need updates to 
> > > > support
> > > > targetsdk=23
> > > >
> > > > But as you can see this is less important that getting the 
> > > > plugins to
> > > work
> > > > correctly with permissions :-)
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 12:03 AM Joe Bowser <bows...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > BTW: I got Contacts somewhat working with Marshmellow.  It's 
> > > > > still
> > got
> > > > the
> > > > > same crappy concurrency bugs that it always has, and I am not 
> > > > > sure
> > how
> > > to
> > > > > resolve those without re-writing the damn thing, but the 
> > > > > purpose of
> > > this
> > > > is
> > > > > to figure out how to get permissions to work, and I have 
> > > > > something
> > that
> > > > > works.
> > > > >
> > > > > https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3a%2f
> > > > > %2 
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> > > > > es
> > > > > &data=01%7c01%7cnikhilkh%40microsoft.com%7c30099748db0849137b6
> > > > > b0 
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> > > > > En 9QG4vSDvqCMhBH%2f7r6RyBjitCYeMUtlXC4WE%3d
> > > > >
> > > > > This works with the latest smores tree of Cordova Android, and 
> > > > > I
> > tested
> > > > it
> > > > > on Lollipop and Marshmellow.  I'm going to move on to some of 
> > > > > the
> > other
> > > > > plugins to get them ready for Marshmellow, but it'd be good to 
> > > > > have
> > > > people
> > > > > look these over.
> > > > >
> > > > > I did find a nasty security bug with this, though.  If you 
> > > > > request
> > one
> > > > > permission out of the permission group, you get all the
> permissions.
> > > So,
> > > > > anything that can read contacts can magically write contacts 
> > > > > even if
> > > you
> > > > > don't request that permission explicitly.  I think this is a 
> > > > > serious
> > > bug,
> > > > > and I'm going to dig tomorrow to see if someone already 
> > > > > reported
> it.
> > > > >
> > > > > On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 11:35 AM Joe Bowser 
> > > > > <bows...@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > Hey
> > > > > >
> > > > > > So, I created a new topic branch of my github with the new 
> > > > > > changes
> > as
> > > > > > suggested earlier.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3a%
> > > > > > 2f 
> > > > > > %2fgithub.com%2finfil00p%2fcordova-android%2ftree%2fsmores&d
> > > > > > at 
> > > > > > a=01%7c01%7cnikhilkh%40microsoft.com%7c30099748db0849137b6b0
> > > > > > 8d 
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> > > > > > bi 0riRRjfDZqQUvQ5pjK29ky3WZcGueYGt%2fRMY%3d
> > > > > >
> > > > > > The thing we have to make sure works is if the user turns 
> > > > > > off the permissions on Marshmellow.  Right now if the 
> > > > > > permissions are off, everything crashes and dies, so we're 
> > > > > > going to issue a 5.0 because
> > > > > plugins
> > > > > > will have to have this code to work on the latest version of
> > Android.
> > > > > It's
> > > > > > not a API change, since we're adding it, but I feel that 
> > > > > > it's
> > > important
> > > > > > enough that we should bump the major version anyway.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Can we PLEASE not have any other features creep into 5.0?  
> > > > > > If we
> > need
> > > > > > additional features, we can do a 6.0.  I'm not against 
> > > > > > bumping
> > major
> > > > > > versions as long as we get into a trend of not breaking shit 
> > > > > > like
> > we
> > > > did
> > > > > in
> > > > > > the bump from 3.7 to 4.0.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Also, we're going to deprecate 3.7, is there any major 
> > > > > > third-party
> > > > > plugins
> > > > > > that still don't work with 4.0.x that we should be aware of?
> > > > > > Do we
> > > > have
> > > > > > people to cover the docs on that.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Thoughts?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Joe
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
>

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