[PhoneGap Build] Future Plugin Support

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Hi all,

There have been a lot of threads on this forum about plugin support in PhoneGap
Build. As you may know, we released support for the ChildBrowser plugin a
couple of months back, and our plan is to develop and support a few more
plugins in-house, before developing a system to allow users to develop and
deploy plugins.

While our work is ongoing, I'd like to start this thread as one place we can
list all the plugins that PG Build users are interested in.

Here's a list of the ones I've seen crop up:


  • Facebook Connect

  • Local Notifications

  • Push (Remote) Notifications

  • iAds (iOS only)

  • Flurry Analytics

  • Barcode Scanner

  • SMS



If there are other plugins you're interested in, please reply here so we can
keep tabs on what we should be looking at.

Our immediate goals are to improve the stability and performance of the PGB
service and release a couple of top-secret features, but we know plugins are a
key feature for our existing PhoneGap Build users, and we're determined to build
robust, cross-platform support.

Cheers,
Andrew
PhoneGap Build
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Andrew Lunny

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Posted 8 years ago

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bhofmann.hotmail.co.uk

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+1
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andy

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Plugin support for PhoneGap build has been promised for more than a year. Lots of hand waving and 'top secret features' nobody asks for or cares about. This looks like more of the same.
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Stefan Kendall

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I'd like to see the globalization plugin supported.

https://github.com/phonegap/phonegap-...
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Nym

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+1
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Eric Harris

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I would love to see a plugin for native form elements.

I know that you can get some nice looking ones using the jQuery Mobile. But native style would be awesome.

I personally am having a lot of trouble with Apple throwing a shit fit about how much native or in their opinion lack of, natively used functionality.

-- Eric
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lawgurl

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I can't wait for you guys/gals to make these happen; even its one plugin at a time. Things take time. Its not like you're sitting around thinking of ways to prolong progress for your product.

So keep up the Good Work and I look forward to the next Plugin you roll out for our use!

Dax
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tkrones

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That's great news! What about the google analytics plugin, it would be great if you supported that too. It's a great way to get user stats.
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ThinkingStiff

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+1 Facebook Connect
+1 Push (Remote) Notifications
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Aleksandr Burnazyan

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1. push notifications (not urban spaceship)
2. Native UI elements (toolbars)
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Philip Andersen

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Definately a +1 for IAds. I will not be able to use Build before this is implemented.

Hopefully in the future, we can describe the configs ourself, and you guys can focus on something else :)

Also it seems like https://build.phonegap.com/docs/plugins the contribute section needs to be updated. It is (not to me at least) clear if I can create the configuration files for my plugins and then automatically run the build.
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lawgurl

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How about an RSS Feed Plugin so we can parse nice looking feeds into our apps.

I am using some mix match coding, but I am looking for something more professional looking. Can you help with this?
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Rodney

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+1,000,000 for Push Notifications (non-UA)
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Andrew Lunny

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@Philip Andersen - I'll update that document to make it clear.
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Rudá Cunha

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+1 for Push Notifications
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Christian Seel

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+1 Facebook Connect
+1 Barcode Scanner

Without these two plugins I can't use Phonegap Build.
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lawgurl

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You can't be serious. From your responses, it looks like you're developing for iOS. If that's the case, iOS already has solutions for most of these...

Notification & Barcode Plugins just to name a few...
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Christian Seel

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Nope, not only iOS.
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lawgurl

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Like I said, FROM YOUR RESPONSES. If you're developing for other platforms its not obvious. Hence, my statement wasn't out of line. For you to say that you can't use PG Build because these plugins aren't available is quite whinny. PhoneGap's competitors do not have plugins solutions so I guess you're not making apps at all...
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Wow @lawgurl, please take a breath, no need to respond so fiercely here (same with your other post on page 2), we're all trying to help each other to be more successful no?

OT: I'm also developing on multiple platforms and totally agree with you Christian, particularly the barcode scanner would be extremely very useful (and more people in this thread seem to think so).
Also Google Analytics would be very useful! I could imagine just adding the unique GA-code in the config.xml to have at least basic analytics, not necessarily with custom vars right of the bat.
Hopefully we can get an update of new features from the PG team! :)
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Yes we want FB connect and Push notifications YAAY..and free phonegap cloud build
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Philip Andersen

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Thanks Andrew. I also forgot NotificationEx.
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Don Coleman

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I'd like to be able to package *any* plugins with my code. This would let me to build and deploy with custom plugins.

For this to work we'd need the the plugin packaging spec. Is that still alive?
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We will continue work on the plugin spec as we develop more plugins.

The plan is to develop more plugins that can be deployed to PhoneGap Build, get an idea of what data and metadata we need about the plugin to install and configure a plugin, and develop the spec accordingly. As we haven't had time to do substantial work on other plugins, the spec hasn't evolved yet.
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+1 Barcode Scanner
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lawgurl

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It appears as though an iOS PG user has developed a Calendar Plugin, however, its only a go on iOS.

https://github.com/felixactv8/Phonega...

Perhaps we can get a Calendar Plugin for ALL of the platforms?
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1. Google Analytics
2. Push Notifications
3. Facebook Connect
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DeLongey

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1) PG thanks for consulting us and continuing to improve the product!

2) Android WebSockets!
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srruch

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1) barcodeScanner
2) Google Analyitics
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1) •Push (Remote) Notifications
2) •Push (Remote) Notifications
3) •Push (Remote) Notifications
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100000000 •Push (Remote) Notifications
Phonegap with Push (Remote) Notifications will be awesome. appMobi already has it, but I prefer phonegap.
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what about support for a QR reader ?
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jerrad.gleim

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Twitter?
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lawgurl

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There are twitter API's all over the place... A plugin would just be recreating the wheel again.

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