I'm trying to use the BarcodeScanner PhoneGap plugin on the new PhoneGap 1.5 but can't compile it.
I'm following the instructions here: https://github.com/phonegap/phonegap-plugins/tree/master/iPhone/BarcodeScanner
But it seems to be for the previous releases.
I'm using the Xcode 4.2, PhoneGap 1.5 and building for iOS 4.0+
Has anyone got this plugin working in PhoneGap 1.5?
Hi new updation available that supports upto 2.0 https://github.com/phonegap/phonegap-plugins/tree/master/iOS/BarcodeScanner
Phonegap 1.5 has come up with a major change which broke many things. I see it's backward compatible but not completely sure.
I just wrote a YouTubeUploader plugin with Phonegap 1.5 and realized instead of Phonegap it's Cordova stuff there. So if the plugin doesn't work, try modifying source code to use Cordova naming instad of Phonegap.
I will write about my plugin soon.
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I created a phonegap app with framework7 but the default version is 1.4 where framework7 is now at 3.3
is there a way to start the phonegap app with latest framework7 versions? a lot of the functions do not work with the default 1.4 in phonegap.
In order to have the last version of Framework7 working in your app you need to migrate from v1 to v3.
The change is not simply matter of updating files. You can find some more detailed instructions in the migration guide from the Framework7 author himself.
iOS 8 introduced WKWebView, a modernised web view for iOS with more features, particularly notably JIT compilation for Javascript code which significantly improves performance.
However WKWebView on iOS 8 had some bugs which prevented Cordova using it by default. AFAIK there are plugins that can use it, but they all say "beta", "incomplete" etc. Also as far as I'm aware iOS 9 fixes the bugs that stopped Cordova defaulting to WKWebView in iOS 8.
So what is the state of WKWebView in Cordova on iOS 9? I can't seem to find any information about this. Does Cordova default to WKWebView on iOS 9? If not why not, and can it be officially enabled another way?
New edit: June 2019
Apple has not removed UIWebView in iOS 13 beta, so looks like it can be used at least for another year.
Ionic WebView plugin, starting in version 3.0.0 no longer uses a web server, but the WKURLSchemeHandler instead, that required to drop support for iOS 10 and older.
Still backport most fixes to 2.x branch that still have the web server for those that want to support iOS 10.
WKWebView was not integrated into cordova-ios 5.0.0, a plugin is still required to use it. Should be there for 6.0.0 version.
And now there is Ionic Capacitor available, an Apache Cordova alternative that was built with the WKWebView since the beginning. It has its own set of plugins, but it's also compatible with most Cordova plugins.
https://capacitor.ionicframework.com/
Old edit: August 2018
Apple has deprecated UIWebView in iOS 12 and will probably remove it in iOS 13.
Apache Cordova has announced that it will integrate the cordova-plugin-wkwebview-engine into cordova-ios in next major release (5.x.x), but UIWebView will still work and be the default one. Also, you'll be able to switch between them in runtime to easily test your app.
In a future release it will remove the whole UIWebView code and the WKWebView will be the only option.
But cordova-plugin-wkwebview-engine still have a lot of issues. I still recommend using cordova-plugin-ionic-webview as using GCDWebServer solves most of the WKWebView issues.
New edit: November 2017
Ionic team has launched a new WKWebView plugin that is no longer a fork of the Cordova one and uses GCDWebServer internally and overcomes most of the Cordova plugin known issues.
New edit: 24 August 2016
Updated just to add a fork of the apache's WKWebView plugin created by the ionic framework team that adds some enhancements to the plugin.
https://github.com/driftyco/cordova-plugin-wkwebview-engine
The enhancements will probably land on the core plugin soon, but you can take a look and test the ionic fork now.
New edit: 9 December 2015
cordova ios 4.0.0 has been released
and the version 1.0.0 of cordova-plugin-wkwebview-engine
To try it:
cordova create wkwvtest my.project.id wkwvtest
cd wkwvtest
cordova platform add ios#4
cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-wkwebview-engine
As I already told, cordova-plugin-wkwebview-engine only supports iOS 9, on iOS 8 it will use UIWebView and has some know issues
If you want to support iOS 8 too, you can use the wkwebview-engine-localhost (experimental) or cordova-plugin-wkwebview from Telerik, both of them use a local web server
https://github.com/apache/cordova-plugins/tree/master/wkwebview-engine-localhost
OLD MESSAGE:
You can use WKWebView with cordova using the WKWebView plugins available.
The problem you mention is that WKWebView can't load local files, so the plugins use a local web server to workaround the problem.
There are some of them like this one from telerik https://github.com/Telerik-Verified-Plugins/WKWebView (with the web server built in) or the official from cordova team https://github.com/apache/cordova-plugins/tree/master/wkwebview-engine-localhost (with the web server as dependency plugin)
As the bug you mention is fixed on iOS 9, the current cordova plugin (compatible with iOS 8 and iOS 9, using the web server) has been renamed to wkwebview-engine-localhost, and the current name cordova-plugin-wkwebview-engine will be used for a new plugin that will support iOS 9 only and won't use the web server
You can see the issues to track the progress here
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-9566
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-9567
EDIT: I bring news https://shazronatadobe.wordpress.com/2015/09/09/apache-cordova-ios-4-0-0-and-wkwebview-support/
WKWebView support
The cordova-plugin-wkwebview-engine plugin will be iOS 9 only and it
will be a core plugin. The development of this updated plugin is still
in progress. Apple has fixed the bug where we couldn’t load documents
from file:// urls, and it is iOS 9 only. On non-iOS 9 devices,
cordova-ios will fallback to using the UIWebView.
The old version of this plugin used a local webserver to load your
main document. This older plugin can be used where you want to use
WKWebView in both iOS 8 and iOS 9 deployments, but the plugin will
remain as a cordova-labs experiment. This plugin has some re-factoring
work to be done.
I have an app built on Cordova 3.3 running this phonegap-estimote plugin.
All works great on iOS 7 devices, but will crash on startup for any version previous.
I've tried using window.device.version on DeviceReady to bypass calls related to the plugin, but I think the app crashes on plugin initialization.
So my question: is there a way to conditionally load a plugin or prevent it from initializing?
This is Wojtek Borowicz, I'm a community evangelist in Estimote.
Please note that Estimote SDK, for which the referenced PhoneGap plugin was built, is only compatible with iOS 7. You can however set some code within your libraries and the CoreLocation from 'required' to 'optional'
I have been using the Barcode Scanner Phonegap plugin on Android, and tried to implement the same on iOS. However it seems like the documentation is outdated. The Github README.md file does not really apply to the current version of Xcode and latest ZXing library. I am using Xcode 4.6.2. I tried to follow the instructions from here on iOS 6.1 but many things are different. My code compiles but it does not seem to be able to call the scanner. Any ideas?
This works. It is the same plugin updated by #zeroasterisk. It does the trick, until PhoneGap guys update the plugin.
I am trying to develop a first app using cordova. I followed the instruction from http://www.adobe.com/devnet/html5/articles/getting-started-with-phonegap-in-xcode-for-ios.html, but when I try to create a project in Xcode cordova-based application is not found in choose a template for your new project.
Xcode is xcode_4.4.3 and cordova is cordova-2.0.0
Xcode templates are no longer available for in Cordova since version 2.0:
http://shazronatadobe.wordpress.com/2012/07/20/improvements-in-cordova-2-0-0-for-ios/