+1 geo and websql deprecation I would wait on camera until we actually do the api audit
On 3/22/13 2:54 PM, "Joe Bowser" <bows...@gmail.com> wrote: >Hey > >I'm currently looking through the plugins, and I'm thinking more and >more that Android has at least two plugins that I would like to see no >longer maintained once we break them off of the main repository. > >Geolocation: >------------------- >Our Geolocation doesn't actually give us anything that the browser >doesn't do. I think that GPS could be done better, and that the spec >sucks. However our core plugins are supposed to follow the spec, and >since the browser on Android does this much better, there's no point >for this plugin to exist. > >WebSQL Storage: >---------------------------- >Our WebSQL storage is pretty brittle and is just a shim to the raw >SQLite that Android creates. There's no real exception handling, and >this could easily crash. I would like to deprecate this and point >people to a third party plugin if they need their SQLite done. > >Camera >-------------- >Also, we need to figure out how we capture things. It'd be good if we >picked one way to do this over the other. Right now mobile-spec seems >to use the Camera API, which I don't think is correct. We need to >write a new test for this, because right now this isn't well tested. >I'd like to send the old Camera API on the ice flow in favour of >capture and the native URI handling. > >Thoughts on this? > >Joe
