David already wrote a plugin for this a few months ago for us to use in the test harness: https://github.com/apache/cordova-labs/tree/cdvtest/cordova-plugin-appsettings
I think he planned on proposing it for core but there was never really a reason for it. I guess now's a good time to get that going. On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 3:39 PM, Andrew Grieve <[email protected]> wrote: > Certainly a reasonable thing to want to do, but there's no way currently > short of writing a custom plugin, or a post-prepare hook. > > > > On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 3:34 PM, Axel Nennker <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I fear this is a stupid question but I could not find the answer in the > > cordova docs or on the net or reading the source (Luke). > > > > As an app developer and cordova user how do I get data from config.xml? > > > > We want to add an "about" page to an cordova app and could not find a > > simple javascript way to get to things like author, id, version, name or > > description from config.xml. > > Writing a plugin seems to be overkill. Using the file or file-transfer > > plugins is heavy lifting too. > > > > Shouldn't there be a way to write cordova.config.name to get the > contents > > of the name element in config.xml? > > > > Someone added "metadata" to cordova_plugins.js. > > Maybe we could add something similar to cordova.js too? > > > > Does this make sense? > > > > Thanks > > Axel > > >
