Add phonegap/Ordova plugin

Question

Hey, you guys.

I’m trying to develop an APP in phonegap for Android and iOS. The goal of the APP is:

1) The person will have a button to access the device’s camera. 2) When the screen to take a photo of the device appears, you should have an image on the screen, like a target, something like that. When the person clicks to take the photo, the result has to be with this target (in the jpeg file, for example). 3) The photo appears on the screen of the APP for person see if liked... 4) .. If she likes it, she clicks a button that brings up those native sharing options on the device.

I already got (1) and (3). I copied this code: "https://gist.github.com/dhavaln/2238017"

The code is EXACTLY the same as this github link, the only thing I did was leave only one button that accesses the camera (because the access code to the images and gallery of the device, I don’t need it).

My difficulty is (and I would really like to understand this) how I add a plugin. The sharing plugin I found here: http://plugins.telerik.com/nativescript?page=1&search=camera&collection=plugins_telerik_nativescript

and the plugin itself is in: http://plugins.telerik.com/nativescript/plugin/social-share

When I use the code in the command prompt (I am using Windows7... but I will also configure in an Opensuse Tumbleweed this week) "phonegap plugin add nativescript-social-share" or the same command only with "Cordova", appears the message "Cannot find plugin.xml for plugin 'package'. Please Try Adding it Again."

Actually there is a plugin.xml file inside "/plugins/Cordova-plugin-Whitelist/" but it seems to be incompatible... I created a plugin.xml with the code taken from: https://github.com/GrumpySailor/cordova-plugin-device-rotation-vector/blob/master/plugin.xml

but unsuccessfully yet.

A lot of what I want to do and I will definitely need more in the future are "ready", I just need to add plugins. I searched several tutorials on the internet, what I liked most was: http://www.thecodebakers.org/2011/03/licao-1-praparando-o-terreno.html

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What I did to create the project I’m trying to do this (my first!) on the command line I did "phonegap create Hellow com.eu.hello Helloworld"

It was created cute, then I did "phonegap Platform add android" and "phonegap Platform Ios" (which seems not possible in windows, but were installed files anyway)

Then I switched the css files to mine and the index.js file I took and directed to "meu_js.js". I added the camera’s HTML (first link) in html and the JS (first link too) in this "meu_js.js".

To test the APP I’m using a Motoe2, with that Phonegap app, which allows connection via "phonegap serves"

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What do I know: I completely master HTML5, CSS3 and PHP. I have some basic understanding of Java and Python, and I’m starting to study Java.

Remembering that it is my FIRST contact with the phonegap... if possible send references where I learned to deepen also.

Thank you from now on! = D

Answer 1

To add a plugin just use the following command:

[phonegap][cordova] plugin add <nome do plugin>

Each plugin has its own methods and objects, so it is important to check before if it offers the necessary features (and how to access them).

The social sharing plugin you specified seems to only be compatible with the Telerik platform, because there is no indication of compatibility with Cordova/Phonegap; moreover, I tried to install in Cordova and got errors, certainly the same as what happened to you.

I suggest you take a look at the site ngCordova, has a very good collection of plugins, including social sharing: http://ngcordova.com/docs/plugins/socialSharing/