Upgrade to phonegap 3.3.0

Question

I Am upgrading my phonegap project(s) from phonegap 2.9.0 to the latest one, phonegap 3.3.0. Because it has a lot of big improvements.

It\'s about an android project

Answer 1

Well this page seems to explain it (I could only get to this answer by eclipse, the commandline interface (CLI) did never give me any warnings.

this error:

Could not find cordova.js script tag. Plugin loading may fail

lead me to:

https://github.com/phonegap/phonegap-cli/issues/134

and now it seems you have to change the code generated by phonegap create!!

<!-- <script type="text/javascript" src="phonegap.js"></script> -->
<script type="text/javascript" src="cordova.js"></script>

However... this does not help me, still the same error.

So I changed it back in to:

<script type="text/javascript" src="phonegap.js"></script>

I leave this answer, because for others this seemed to have worked (?)

Answer 2

Because it kept complaining about the classes not being found, I suspected this was about the plugin classes. So I removed them all and reisntalled them, now it's working.

Remove all plugins and reinstall them

phonegap plugin list

[phonegap] org.apache.cordova.camera
[phonegap] org.apache.cordova.console 
[phonegap] org.apache.cordova.device
[phonegap] org.apache.cordova.device-motion
[phonegap] org.apache.cordova.device-orientation
[phonegap] org.apache.cordova.dialogs 
[phonegap] org.apache.cordova.file 
[phonegap] org.apache.cordova.file-transfer 
[phonegap] org.apache.cordova.geolocation 
[phonegap] org.apache.cordova.inappbrowser    
[phonegap] org.apache.cordova.media 
[phonegap] org.apache.cordova.media-capture
[phonegap] org.apache.cordova.network-information
[phonegap] org.apache.cordova.splashscreen

phonegap plugin help

for all installs I did this (I couldnot find a * to deinstall them all at once)

phonegap plugin remove org.apache.cordova.device

and after that I reinstalled them, so for all plugins:

phonegap plugin add org.apache.cordova.device

This did the trick for me....

Edit

By the way, a few days later I found out that in case you run things in eclipse. You should add 2 projects. One of the complete project (as a general project, not android). There you can edit the code in the blue print WWW folder. And after editing, you run the cli (command line interface) command: 'cordova build' and than you can run it from the second project (you add the platforms/android folder as a android project, using add from existing code).

Answer 3

By the way, after having resolved this issue... I tried whether a complete new checkout for my phonegap project works in a complete new and fresh folder.

And therfore I used a little bash file that did this: (to run after the git clone command in the folder you just cloned):

• unistall all plugins... (I copied the output of list and add phonegap plugin remove)
• install all plugins ...
• phonegap run android

and frustrated got the same message again....

than I found a blog of one of the phonegap hero's: http://devgirl.org/2013/11/12/three-hooks-your-cordovaphonegap-project-needs/

And one remark especially: he created a hook for installing the plugins... but the hook is:

after_platform_add`

which means my order was wrong.... after the checkout, no platform is added, this is done in:

phonegap run android after 

So installing the plugins before the platform is added... seems not to work!

I inserted a command to build (which also adds the platform) before installing the plugin in my bash file, and now it works.

but even better: use the hook suggested by Holly Schinsky in the link above... this works for all platforms, and not just on ubuntu (my bash file).