layout: post author: name: Ian Clelland url: https://twitter.com/iclelland title: “Plugins Release: July 8, 2014” categories: news tags: release plugins

The following plugins were updated today:

  • cordova-plugin-contacts: 0.2.11
  • cordova-plugin-network-information: 0.2.10

Notable changes include:

  • The network-information plugin no longer crashes immediately if no network is available
  • navigator.contacts.pickContact API has been added for Android, iOS, Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8 platforms
  • navigator.contacts.find API on Android, iOS and Windows Phone 8 now supports desiredFields which specifies contact fields to be returned
  • Contacts on Firefox OS no longer requires manual change of the application permissions

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

You can update any plugin by removing it, and then re-adding it. E.g. To update your contacts plugin:

cordova plugin rm org.apache.cordova.contacts
cordova plugin add org.apache.cordova.contacts

Other changes include:

org.apache.cordova.contacts@0.2.11

  • CB-5416 Adding support for auto-managing permissions
  • CB-6682 Move Windows 8 command proxy into its missing platform tag
  • CB-5698 iOS Check to see if photoData exists before using
  • CB-7003 Android Make pickContact pick correct contact on Android 4.3 and 4.4.3
  • Remove deprecated symbols for iOS < 6
  • Windows Phone 8 now populates contact photos
  • Add pickContact functionality to Cordova contacts plugin
  • Add ContactError codes to index.md doc
  • Docs typo: navigator.contacts.length -> contacts.length
  • CB-6127 Spanish and French Translations added
  • CB-6797 Add license
  • CB-6491 Add CONTRIBUTING.md

org.apache.cordova.network-information@0.2.10

  • CB-6907: Android Don't crash on startup if no networks available