Cordova Build - ignore files

Question

When compiling a cordova application every single file in my /www folder gets copied to the assets/www folder(android) but I\'d like to customize what

Answer 1

I do not know any way how to filter files for cordova, but I can describe you approach that we use in our projects.

We are using gruntjs with phonegap plugin. We configure it to use prebuilt folder (which contains only necessary files and folders) and it:

• creates cordova/phonegap project
• adds plugins,platforms
• builds native applicaiton
• launches native application on emulator

Main thing in this approach is that cordova/phonegap project (directory with .cordova, platforms and www folders) is just a build artefact.

Here is relevant part of our Gruntfile.js as an example:

  phonegap : {
     config : {
        root : './out/dist',
        config : {
           template : './config.tpl.xml',
           data: {
              id: pkg.id,
              version: pkg.version,
              name: pkg.name,
              author : pkg.author
           }
        },
        path : 'out/phonegap',
        plugins : [
           // PHONEGAP OFFICIAL PLUGINS
           'org.apache.cordova.globalization',
           'org.apache.cordova.network-information',
           'org.apache.cordova.splashscreen',

           //THIRD-PARTY PLUGINS
           'de.appplant.cordova.plugin.local-notification'
        ],
        platforms : [
           'android'
        ],
        maxBuffer : 200, // You may need to raise this for iOS.
        verbose : false,
        releases : 'out/releases',
        releaseName : function() {
           return pkg.name + '-v' + pkg.version;
        },

        // Android-only integer version to increase with each release.
        // See http://developer.android.com/tools/publishing/versioning.html
        versionCode : function() {
           return 1;
        }
     }
  }

Note, out/dist is generated by previous build step and contains concatenated and minified version of code.