2021 02 24 - Cordova

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Wed, 24 Feb 2021 08:39:21 GMT

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Channel #general (1 messages)

Wed, 24 Feb 2021 03:34:19 GMT

@mathewp.94 says

I see there are a few different plugins available for implementing in-app reviews for iOS and Android, is there any one in particular that is recommended by the community?

Channel #cordova-ios (5 messages)

Tue, 23 Feb 2021 10:56:59 GMT

@harsh.agarwal says

hi i am using this plugin : https://github.com/kitolog/cordova-plugin-animated-splashscreen

Tue, 23 Feb 2021 10:59:43 GMT

@timbru says

So what do you want to tell us? 🙂 That plugin looks really outdated.

Tue, 23 Feb 2021 13:55:35 GMT

@harsh.agarwal says

the ios code is breaking

Tue, 23 Feb 2021 14:04:19 GMT

@norman137 says

We won't really be able to offer much assistance with third-party code unfortunately. If you tell us how it's breaking we might be able to give you some hints on what needs to be done to fix the plugin.

But for iOS there are two main things that is probably breaking the plugin:

It's probably using legacy splash screens, which is deprecated and I believe will not work in iOS 14+. See https://developer.apple.com/documentation/bundleresources/information_property_list/uilaunchimages?language=objc

The splashscreen plugin is in the process of being dismantled and the code is being migrated to the core platform. This has been done in cordova-ios@6 so if you're using cordova-ios@6 there are probably conflicts happening. The latest version the apache's version of splashscreen has all iOS code removed.

Tue, 23 Feb 2021 14:14:22 GMT

@timbru says

Shameless self promotion: I’ve developed a splash screen replacement plugin that shows animated launch screens via Lottie animations, that might fit your use case, too. You’ll still need the mentioned launch images for iOS as those are required by Apple.

Channel #cordova-android (4 messages)

Tue, 23 Feb 2021 08:48:02 GMT

@ucheozoemena says

Hi folks, I'm curious to know other people's experiences with plugins slowing down your app's initialization. The screenshot below shows the plugins taking up 4s from when they're injected to when they finish loading. This doesn't include the other scripts and assets that my app uses, so this is really expensive. Has anyone come up with a way to optimize the plugins loading? My case looks like death by a thousand cuts because I use a lot of plugins and in total they inject more than 130 scripts into the <head> tag during app init. It seems as though each script does just a little bit of work, but together they take up a large chunk of time. Any ideas/suggestions apart from just using fewer plugins? I'm considering forking the plugins and modifying them to load each function using dynamic import() when I actually invoke the function. Does anyone know or sense any shortcomings/concerns with such a strategy? I've also noticed that the initial load event after parsing the cordova.js file doesn't fire until around 3s into app init, so this 4s chunk of time only begins 3s into app init, giving me at least 7s of delay before deviceready fires, so most of my app's main logic can't run during this period. Really quite expensive. Open to any ideas, thanks in advance. These are the plugins I use:
pushy-cordova
branch-cordova-sdk
com.googlemaps.ios
cordova-background-geolocation
cordova-plugin-background-fetch
cordova-plugin-actionsheet
cordova-plugin-android-notch
cordova-plugin-android-permissions
cordova-plugin-camera
cordova-plugin-contacts
cordova-plugin-datepicker
cordova-plugin-dialogs
cordova-plugin-enable-multidex
cordova-plugin-file-transfer
cordova-plugin-googlemaps
cordova-plugin-googleplus
cordova-plugin-inappbrowser
cordova-plugin-ionic-keyboard
cordova-plugin-ionic-webview
cordova-plugin-ios-camera-permissions
cordova-plugin-local-notification
cordova-plugin-device
cordova-plugin-badge
cordova-plugin-media-capture
cordova-plugin-file
cordova-plugin-native-logs
cordova-plugin-network-information
cordova-plugin-purchase
cordova-plugin-splashscreen
cordova-plugin-statusbar
cordova-plugin-video-editor
cordova-plugin-whitelist
cordova-plugin-x-socialsharing
cordova-sqlite-storage
cordova.plugins.diagnostic
es6-promise-plugin
pushy-cordova-receiver
rollbar-cordova
cordova-android-support-gradle-release
cordova-plugin-androidx-adapter```

Tue, 23 Feb 2021 14:02:23 GMT

@marchjigtala says

Hi, where can I find the Passphrase for keystore?

Enter Passphrase for keystore: is showing when I run this line jarsigner -verbose -sigalg SHA1withRSA -digestalg SHA1 -keystore <keystorename <Unsigned APK file> <Keystore Alias name> Thanks

Tue, 23 Feb 2021 14:04:34 GMT

@norman137 says

That's something you choose when you create the keystore.

Tue, 23 Feb 2021 14:08:53 GMT

@tuyenhm93 says

Hi, can we build cordova app as a server rendered app then load it into android webview ?