push plugin update status

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Hi guys;
is the push plugin ever going to be updated to work with PGB?
its last been updated on dec 3th 2013. I assume this is the most used plugin in PGB and it PG push plugin has been updated numerous times but PGB stays the same.
thanks.
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gkatz

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Posted 6 years ago

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Felix Leon

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yes, a shame :-(( phonegap canT' be used if it's going such way
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Kaiesh

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Well the current scope of functionality that the plugin provides is extremely basic, and if there is any desire to have people actually use the Build service, then it needs to be recognised that push notifications are a fundamental characteristic of nearly every app.

I can't do any more than create a simplistic notification with this plugin - and am consequently going to have to build it with a local customised instance of phonegap as opposed to using the build service.

It's such a shame because the Build Service is otherwise fantastic - the plugin management is where it all falls over for me.

K
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Eddy Verbruggen, Champion

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@Kaiesh, @Felix Leon, instead of sticking with the hosted Push plugin, why don't you use one published on plugins.cordova.io, or npm?
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Eddy can you please elaborate? are you referring to a PGB plugin or PG plugin?
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Eddy Verbruggen, Champion

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See these announcements:

Using plugins from plugins.cordova.io on PGB:
http://phonegap.com/blog/2014/12/09/p...

Using plugins from NPM on PGB:
http://phonegap.com/blog/2015/05/26/n...

So if a built-in plugin doesn't cut it just use an external one. I for one no longer maintain my built-in plugins of PGB because of this fact.
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got it.
only problem is we would like to rely on the formal PG plugin...
the only thing I found close to that is http://plugins.cordova.io/#/package/c...
but this is not a formal one.

I wish PGB simply update their formal plugin more frequently.
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Ha, if a PG-backed Push plugin is what you're after then you'll be pleased to learn that this shiny new plugin is just the thing: https://github.com/phonegap/phonegap-... (you can probably get it from NPM).
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well indeed its on NPM but:
-needs PG 5 and i think pg isnot thre yet.
-seem to have a really minimal amount of downloads.
anyways, thanks for your help.
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(PGB supports NPM plugins, including this one - that 5.0 readme mention is only about installing locally with the phonegap CLI)
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ok, thanks for the info.
one last question though: how do we novices easily find a plugin and know that this is the plugin to use. i mean in the oficial PGB plugins page there are stats for recently used and number of downloads plus i can see the owner of the plugin.
in the npm world its hard for me to understand all that.