Chapter 8. Creating custom plugins

This chapter covers

  • Why you’d write your own plugins
  • The basic architecture of plugins
  • How to build a sample Android plugin

In the past few chapters you’ve made use of a variety of plugins. Plugins to use the camera. Plugins to provide notifications. Plugins for globalization. You’ve also seen that an entire directory, (http://plugins.cordova.io) containing over 700 different plugins, exists.

8.1. Why write your own plugins?

But with all those choices, there’s still a strong chance you may encounter a need that isn’t covered by an existing plugin. Or perhaps a plugin exists, but it performs poorly and hasn’t been kept up to date. Perhaps the iPhone 9 is released with an incredible new feature—a cowbell. ...

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