What's our deprecation policy? Should we log a deprecation message before remove this support. What alternatives do Cordova developers have - are there other plugins which provide the equivalent functionality - perhaps with a better API - as opposed to polling events every 1% battery drop.
-Nikhil -----Original Message----- From: Shazron [mailto:shaz...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, March 7, 2016 5:27 PM To: dev@cordova.apache.org Subject: Re: Can we please kill the Battery Plugin on Android +1 If no one has concerns by the end of the week, I'd say we would have lazy consensus and you can delete the Android part of the plugin (maybe prep the PR now) On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 12:12 PM, Joe Bowser <bows...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey > > Once again, I ran into someone using the Battery Plugin that actively > kills the Battery on Android, and can we please discourage people from > using this very broken plugin that we have no ability or intention of fixing? > > The reason I don't want to fix it because the browser already supports > it on the latest versions of Chromium, and because it's impossible to > fix without changing the API entirely. We really need to kick this > harmful plugin to the curb so that people stop making applications > that drain the battery of their devices. > > I know that we've talked about it at length, but I don't ever remember > us coming to a conclusion regarding killing the battery plugin on Android. > > Any thoughts? > > Joe --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@cordova.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@cordova.apache.org
