App cache iOS PhoneGap

Question

On Android I used

file:///storage/sdcard0/Android/data/my.app.id/cache/

to download (FileTransfer) some images and then show them in my h

Answer 1

After days of struggling with this I found the not-so-obvious but very easy solution.

Instead of using

file:///var/mobile/Applications//Documents/

to download files on iOS, I used just plain

cdvfile://localhost/persistent/ 

that I got from

fileSystem.root.toNativeURL(); // same for Android and iOS

This downloaded my file successfully to

file:///var/mobile/Applications//Documents/

and this is also the src path I used to display images in HTML.

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Just to clarify what happened in my case: ( when using resolveLocalFileSystemURL() )

• On Android:

  cdvfile://localhost/persistent/ -> file:///storage/sdcard0/
  

  I had to add

  Android/com.my.appid/cache/
  

  manually and if I removed the app, files got removed as well which is OK.

• On iOS:

  cdvfile://localhost/persistent/ -> file:///var/mobile/Applications//Documents/
  

  Here I didn't need to add anything, persistent storage was already pointing to my app's own 'cache' which is in this case in Documents folder. This gets removed with the app as well which is correct.