Michal: Does your plugin work for non-string preferences? https://github.com/apache/cordova-labs/blob/cdvtest/cordova-plugin-appsettings/src/android/AppSettings.java#L22has a getString.
BTW: When looking a the code of Config.java I was wondering why there are all those "equalsIgnoreCase" e.g. https://github.com/apache/cordova-android/blob/master/framework/src/org/apache/cordova/Config.java#L118 There is a toLowerCase anyway before 2014-02-28 22:06 GMT+01:00 Michal Mocny <mmo...@chromium.org>: > Now that I look a bit deeper, that plugin I only returns <preferences> > specifically, not the entire contents of config.xml (name is not a > <preference>). > > It also does not currently implement a way to inspect all preferences, just > has a way to get the value for a specific one. > > I do think it would be a good idea to just have one core plugin (perhaps > extend that one I linked) to include all config file values. > > Filed: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-6139 > > -Michal > > > On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 3:57 PM, Michal Mocny <mmo...@chromium.org> wrote: > > > 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 <agri...@chromium.org > >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 <ignisvul...@gmail.com> > >> 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 > >> > > >> > > > > >