Adding 3rd party plug-ins

[Kal]

http://devcenter.appery.io/documentat...

Problem is, when I go to the Source tab of my project, I don't see anything like /lib/plugins/... nor do I see anything like /src/com/phonegap/plugins/...

How do I do this? Am I looking in the wrong place?

[Alena Prykhodko]

Hi,

Please see the screen shot attached.

Go Source Tab - Android - your app name folder-assets - www- files- resources - lib - plugins And in this folder prees gear and create new folder with needed files according to tutorial.

[Kal]

Thanks, Alena! So the instructions for the Android platform only?

What if I wanted to use the same phonegap plugin in both Android and IOS (after all that is the point of phonegap, right?). Where would I add to the IOS tree?

[Kal]

Hi, just to let you know, I am still waiting for an answer on adding phonegap plug-in in a way that will be usable for both IOS and Android. It is not clear to me if the instructions as given by Alena is good enough for both, or do I need to add something more for the IOS branch?

[Illya Stepanov]

Hi Kal,

Unfortunately you can't add iOS PhoneGap plugin using only Appery.io.
You will need to export it to xCode and made additional changes inside your project.

[Kal]

Thanks for the answer, even though it is disappointing!

Phonegap plugins are inherently meant to be device-independent. If Appery.io actually uses Phonegap, it is not clear to me why a method was not provided to support this feature of Phonegap. Please take this to the product management folks as a feature request.

Thanks,
-Kal.

[Illya Stepanov]

Ok Kal, definitely will be done. As I know integration for iOS PhoneGap plugins was in our roadmap, but let me check this.

[Maryna Brodina]

Hello Kal!

We have this functionality in our todo list, just don't have exact time when it is going to be implemented.