Cordova iOS plugins not found

Question

I recently upgraded to Cordova 2.9.0 from 2.3.0. After following all the upgrade instructions, I was able to get the app to launch in the simulator. However, in Xcode I see

Answer 1

Came across this issue myself. Found the only solution was running cordova prepare after adding the plugins via CLI. prepare copies the necessary files across to the XCode project within the platforms folder.

I think this should be done as part of the build command, or the plugin add command if the project is present. Maybe it's a bug, maybe it's deliberate, but I couldn't find much documentation on it.

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