skwas-cordova-plugin-appinfo

Cordova Plugin to retrieve application information, like the App name, version, compile date and identifier. Additionally returns some device capabilities (which perhaps should be move to the device plugin).

Installation

cordova plugin add skwas-cordova-plugin-appinfo

or for latest

cordova plugin add https://github.com/skwasjer/skwas-cordova-plugin-appinfo.git

Supported platforms

Android 4.1 and higher
iOS 8 and higher (tested with Xcode 7.2.3 and Xcode 8)
Browser proxy (provided only for compatibility)

Tested with Cordova 7 and higher.

Usage

This plugin defines a global appInfo object, which provides application properties. Although the object is in the global scope, it is not available until after the deviceready event.

document.addEventListener("deviceready", onDeviceReady, false);
function onDeviceReady() {
    console.log(appInfo.name);
}

Properties

appInfo.name

Type: String

Gets the application name.

Supported platforms

• Android (manifest/application@android:label)
• iOS (CFBundleName)

appInfo.identifier

Type: String

Gets the application identifier.

Supported platforms

• Android (manifest/package)
• iOS (CFBundleIdentifier)

appInfo.version

Type: String

Gets the application version.

Supported platforms

• Android (manifest@android:versionName)
• iOS (CFBundleShortVersionString)

appInfo.build

Type: String

Gets the application build.

Supported platforms

• Android (manifest@android:versionCode)
• iOS (CFBundleVersion)

appInfo.compileDate

Type: String

Gets the datetime when the application was compiled.

Supported platforms

• Android
• iOS

Android quirks

When compiling for debug, the compile date returns January 1, 1970. This is on purpose to avoid changes to BuildConfig triggering full rebuilds (and allowing faster Instant Run).

appInfo.isHardwareAccelerated

Type: Boolean

Gets whether the application is using hardware acceleration.

Supported platforms

• Android, Honeycomb upwards
• iOS will always return true

appInfo.isDebuggable

Type: Boolean

Gets whether the application can be remotely debugged.

Supported platforms

• Android
• iOS

Changelog

2.0.0

• Android: since Gradle 2.2, files in APK's no longer have timestamps, thus breaking the compileDate property. Fixed by adding a property to BuildConfig at build time.

1.0.1

• Android: fix compile error when cordova-plugin-device is not installed

1.0.0

• Marking v1 since it is fairly stable and not changing much.
• Android/iOS: added build and identifier.

0.4.0

• added Cordova 5.x support

0.3.5

• run plugin in background as per Cordova manual

0.3.4

• added iOS support

0.3.2

• Android support
• first public release