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<h1>Configuration Reference</h1>
<p>Many aspects of an application&#39;s behavior can be controlled with a
platform-agnostic configuration file, <code>config.xml</code>, which is formatted
based on the W3C&#39;s
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/widgets/">Packaged Web Apps (Widgets)</a>
specification.</p>
<p>For projects created with the Cordova CLI (described in The
Command-line Interface), this file can be found in the top-level <code>www</code>
directory. Using the CLI to build projects regenerates versions of
this file in various subdirectories within <code>platforms</code>. For non-CLI
projects, each platform-specific file serves as a source.</p>
<p>While the location of the <code>config.xml</code> file may change depending on
the platform, its contents generally do not. Some platform-specific
features are also specified in the same configuration file. Details
are listed below:</p>
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<li><a href="../guide/platforms/ios/config.html">iOS Configuration</a></li>
<li><a href="../guide/platforms/android/config.html">Android Configuration</a></li>
<li><a href="../guide/platforms/blackberry/config.html">BlackBerry Configuration</a></li>
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<h2>config.xml Elements</h2>
<p>The <a href="http://cordova.io">Apache Cordova</a> project strives abstract away native platform specifics via web-inspired and web-based
abstractions that are heavily standards driven and adopted by the web community. Please take a few minutes to familiarize
yourself with the <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/widgets/">config.xml specification</a>, to understand the type of application metadata the
Apache Cordova project aims to abstract and provide simple entry points for.</p>
<p>An example:</p>
<div class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge"><div class="highlight"><pre class="highlight"><code> &lt;widget&gt;
&lt;preference name="MySetting" value="true" /&gt;
&lt;feature name="MyPlugin" value="MyPluginClass" /&gt;
&lt;access origin="*" /&gt;
&lt;content src="index.html" /&gt;
&lt;/widget&gt;
</code></pre></div></div>
<p>A list of supported elements across major platforms which are supported in Apache Cordova follow.</p>
<h3><code>&lt;feature&gt;</code></h3>
<p>These elements map to native APIs that the application accesses. At
runtime, the Apache Cordova framework maps <code>&lt;feature&gt;</code> elements to
native code to enable your Cordova application to access device APIs
otherwise unavailable to typical web-based applications.</p>
<h3><code>&lt;access&gt;</code></h3>
<p>These elements define how your whitelist works. Please see the
<a href="../guide/appdev/whitelist/index.html">Domain Whitelist Guide</a> for more information.</p>
<h3><code>&lt;content&gt;</code></h3>
<p>This element defines your application&#39;s start page relative to the
project&#39;s standard web assets root directory. This element is optional,
the default is <code>index.html</code>.</p>
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