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Upgrading Cordova Android

This document is for people who need to upgrade their Cordova versions from an older version to a current version of Cordova.

  • To upgrade to 1.8.0, please go from 1.7.0
  • To upgrade from 1.7.0, please go from 1.6.0

Upgrade to 1.8.0 from 1.7.0

  1. Remove cordova-1.7.0.jar from the libs directory in your project
  2. Add cordova-1.8.0.jar to the libs directory in your project
  3. If you are using Eclipse, please refresh your eclipse project and do a clean
  4. Copy the new cordova-1.8.0.js into your project
  5. Update your HTML to use the new cordova-1.8.0.js file
  6. Update the res/xml/plugins.xml to be the same as the one found in framework/res/xml/plugins.xml

Upgrade to 1.7.0 from 1.6.0

  1. Remove cordova-1.6.0.jar from the libs directory in your project
  2. Add cordova-1.7.0.jar to the libs directory in your project
  3. If you are using Eclipse, please refresh your eclipse project and do a clean
  4. Copy the new cordova-1.7.0.js into your project
  5. Update your HTML to sue the new cordova-1.7.0.js file
  6. Update the res/xml/plugins.xml to be the same as the one found in framework/res/xml/plugins.xml