Cordova CLI - 不更新 config.xml

Question

I have used the Cordova CLI 6.5.0 for the past 1-2 years, and it's acted normally. We are upgrading our main app to android@8.0.0 , which required a Cordova CLI upgrade. In using Cordova CLI 9.0.0, I'm noticing that many things are no longer updating the config.xml file:

• platform adds - no longer see <engine> elements
• plugin adds - not adding <plugin> elements

I am making sure --save is used in the commands (which I gather is not even required anymore). When I run a cordova platform list or cordova plugin list I see the expected platforms/plugins. I also see that the package.json is used more heavily now. However, the plugin/platform versions are not in the package.json so I can't imagine that's a complete replacement?

Lastly, some additional things I've tried:

• running cordova platform android save
• running cordova clean and cordova prepare
• adding and removing the platform (and ditching the related directories)
• Running an actual build (which works fine)

Is this "normal"? Do these newer cordova versions not leverage the config.xml as regularly now?

Answer 1

Looks like this was an expected change with Cordova 9.0.0. I can see hints of the reason in the Cordova 9.0 Lib release . Specifically this change that got pulled in. There are also hints of the new package.json format here .

The config.xml file was extremely important to Cordova setup for years. I would have expected this change to make a bigger splash in the way of documentation/announcements. Maybe I'm just looking in the wrong places.

Answer 2

Cordova 9.0.0

cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-device
cordova plugin save