Phonegap 3 - Call Cordova Methods In Hosted Application

I'm porting a Phonegap 2.7 application to Phonegap 3. The application is hosted, so phonegap loads an external url instead of a local html. This hosted webapp loads cordoba.js, how

Solution 1:

Call the plugin directly with cordova.exec. it goes like this:

cordova.exec(function(response){}, function(errorText){}, "PluginName", "method", []) ;

Solution 2:

Cordova exec()!

I wonder if your cordova.js file just doesn't have the navigator.splashscreen object. In Cordova 3.0, all of the plugins were separated out, and the cordova.js file just became the bridge code. When the app runs, it loads all of the plugin .js files via ajax - see the cordova_plugins.js file in a built project. As it loads these files, Cordova will fix up the namespaces for you, so that navigator.splashscreen namespace actually maps to the splashscreen js code. I'm betting you are not loading this cordova_plugins.js file which means the clobbering isn't working.

It's still working because the bridge code works. When you use exec() you're just running the command that navigator.splashscreen.hide does: https://github.com/apache/cordova-plugin-splashscreen/blob/master/www/splashscreen.js#L26

If I were you, I'd try to rebuild the app the new Cordova 3.x way, with the cordova cli. That way you won't have to actually call the exec function manually which seems pretty brittle (the exec() probably won't change, but it seems like a pain looking up the exec calls for every plugin interaction you need.)

BTW I'm not sergio on irc, so feel free to give him the answer if he posts since he answered your question first. I'm just trying to explain why that happens and why it doens't work for you anymore - basically, 2.7 and 3.x are pretty different in terms of plugins.