layout: post author: name: Steve Gill url: https://twitter.com/stevesgill title: “Plugins Release: October 17, 2014” categories: news tags: release plugins

The following plugins were updated today:

  • cordova-plugin-camera: 0.3.3
  • cordova-plugin-contacts: 0.2.14
  • cordova-plugin-file-transfer: 0.4.7
  • cordova-plugin-globalization: 0.3.2
  • cordova-plugin-inappbrowser: 0.5.3
  • cordova-plugin-media: 0.2.14
  • cordova-plugin-media-capture: 0.3.4
  • cordova-plugin-network-information: 0.2.13
  • cordova-plugin-splashscreen: 0.3.4

Notable changes include:

  • CB-7633 - Add iPhone 6/6+ support for cordova-splashscreen plugin
  • CB-7595: Android L changes the type from Mobile to Cellular for cordova-network-information plugin.
  • CB-7429 Added Windows support for cordova-media-capture plugin
  • CB-7548 BlackBerry10 Re-implement getPreferredLanguage() and getLocaleName() for cordova-globalization plugin.
  • CB-7529 Windows Adds support for ms-appdata URIs for cordova-file-transfer plugin

The plugins have been updated on our registry at plugins.cordova.io.

You can update any plugin by removing it, and then readding it. E.g. To update your camera plugin:

cordova plugin rm org.apache.cordova.camera
cordova plugin add org.apache.cordova.camera

Other changes include:

org.apache.cordova.camera@0.3.3

  • CB-7600 Adds informative message to error callback in manual test.

org.apache.cordova.contacts@0.2.14

  • CB-7373 Removes unnecessary Error object creation
  • CB-7373 Adds additional output if method is not supported.
  • CB-7357 Adds missing capability element to phone's appxmanifest.

org.apache.cordova.file-transfer@0.4.7

  • Construct proper FileEntry with nativeURL property set
  • CB-7532 Handle non-existent download dirs properly
  • CB-7529 Adds support for ms-appdata URIs for Windows

org.apache.cordova.globalization@0.3.2

  • CB-7548 BlackBerry10 Re-implement getPreferredLanguage() and getLocaleName().

org.apache.cordova.inappbrowser@0.5.3

  • Windows implementation fixes and improvements
  • zIndex fixed
  • renamed InAppBrowser back to inappbrowser for case sensitive operating systems
  • Update french translation
  • Update doc to add Windows 8
  • Update Windows proxy to be both compatible with Windows 8 and Windows 8.1
  • Rename Windows 8.1 to windows8 in src directory
  • Append Windows 8.1 platform configuration in plugin.xml
  • Append Windows 8.1 proxy using x-ms-webview

org.apache.cordova.media@0.2.14

  • Amazon Specific changes: Added READ_PHONE_STATE permission same as done in Android
  • make possible to play wav files
  • CB-7638 Get audio duration properly on Windows
  • CB-7454 Adds support for m4a audio format for Windows
  • CB-7547 Fixes audio recording on Windows platform
  • CB-7531 Fixes play() failure after release() call

org.apache.cordova.media-capture@0.3.4

  • CB-7453 Adds fallback to m4a audio format when mp3 recording fails.
  • CB-7429 Fixes image capture manual tests on Windows
  • CB-7429 Move Windows 8 and Windows Proxies into one file
  • CB-7429 Adds media capture support for Windows

org.apache.cordova.network-information@0.2.13

  • CB-7595: Android L changes the type from Mobile to Cellular, I‘m pretty sure this isn’t documented

org.apache.cordova.splashscreen@0.3.4

  • Finalized iOS splash screen (image name) tests. 176 tests in all, 44 for each type of device (iPad, iPhone, iPhone5, iPhone6, iPhone 6 Plus).
  • CB-7633 - (Re-fix based on updated unit tests) iPhone 6 Plus support
  • Updated iOS tests for locked orientations
  • Added more iOS splash screen tests.
  • CB-7633 - Add support for iPhone 6/6+
  • Added failing iPhone 6/6 Plus tests.
  • Added npm test
  • CB-7663 - iOS unit tests for splash screen
  • Properly formatted splashscreen preference docs.