How to disable PhoneGap APIs/functionality?

Question

Is there a recommended way to remove access to unneeded PhoneGap APIs?

For example our app does not need to access the contact database.

With normal web pages, a

Answer 1

PhoneGap is Open Source. You could make your own copies of the PhoneGap.js files with those functions disabled (put return false; as the first line of the function or something).

On Android you can do it with the permissions in the AndroidManifest.xml file, but as far as I know, there is not such feature for iOS.