open an activity from a CordovaPlugin

Question

I have written a CordavaPlugin derived class.

public class ShowMap extends CordovaPlugin {

@Override
public boolean execute(String action, JSONArray args,
          


        

Answer 1

Post now in 2017, because it's the top-ranked google search result for "cordova plugin activity" and top-voted answer, along with Cordova plugin guide are both missing the following critical information, that took me many hours to figure out... the parent attrib of config-file and the specific code:

Added to plugin.xml, customized according to your needs:

Updating launching code with above package & activity:

Context context=this.cordova.getActivity().getApplicationContext();
//or Context context=cordova.getActivity().getApplicationContext();
Intent intent=new Intent(context, com.custompackage.MyCustomActivity.class);

context.startActivity(intent);
//or cordova.getActivity().startActivity(intent);