I am looking for a way to be able to specify an image in the config.xml and have it be placed in the drawable directory. Under my circumstances, I have to assume that when the user creates a cordova project, he/she only knows how to modify the config.xml, so that's why I'm pushing for a way to do it this way.
I do have a hackish way of doing it by using the preferences tag and getting the path to the image, and then having a script copy it over, but I know the better way to do it would be to just make a tag to take care of images that are not going to be the main icon or splash image and have cordova-cli handle it for me when I call cordova prepare. This isn't really for a plugin, though maybe an app template, but I just wanted to add this functionality to be able to specify non-icon and non-splash images through the config.xml. I've found where in cordova-lib that the parsing happens for the icon and splash tags, so I was proposing to add a new tag for "general images". The images could be anything that a user might want in his or her app. An example would be a customized button. The user can specify the path to the image file, and then the image will be dropped into the drawable directory. On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 12:27 PM, Jesse <purplecabb...@gmail.com> wrote: > What is the use for the images? Is this for a plugin, or an app template? > I can think of a couple ways to do this, but none would affect > configure.xml. > I suggest you look at how the splash screen plugin does this for android. > > > > > On May 1, 2015, at 8:39 AM, Karen Tran <ktop...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Hi dev-list, > > > > I wanted to get your input on a feature I want to add to the config.xml. > > > > Currently there are only the icon tag and splash tag that allows the user > > to specify the icon and splash image in the config.xml respectively. > > > > I want to be able to specify multiple images that will be used in my app > > such as customized buttons. The problem is that the icon tag will rename > > the image specified to icon.png, so ultimately the user would only be > able > > to change the main icon. And the splash tag of course handles the splash > > image, so I don't want that. > > > > I propose making a new tag that handles general images. It'll be similar > to > > the icon tag, except it won't rename the image. It will copy the image > from > > the src, and drop it into the correct drawable-density directory (I am > > working in android). > > > > I know I can just drop the images myself into the drawable folders, but I > > have to assume that my users won't know the android project structure and > > will only modify the config.xml. > > > > Any thoughts, comments, or critiques would be appreciated. > > > > > > Regards, > > Karen Tran > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@cordova.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@cordova.apache.org > >
