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Mirror of Apache Cordova app harness
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Apk packager plugin #61

Closed bil-ash closed 6 years ago

bil-ash commented 6 years ago

What is the current status of the apkpackager plugin? Is it usable now?If yes, please do provide an example. Development seems to have abruptly stopped some years back,any specific reason?

Haemp commented 6 years ago

Pretty sure this project is dead/dying I wouldn't rely on this project for making any new application today

bil-ash commented 6 years ago

Any specific reason behind stopping development of the plugin? The plugin from which it was forked also stopped development abruptly. Actually I would like to use it, if required I can work on it, but for that I would like to know the reason behind the abrupt halting of the project. Any new restriction imposed by android sdk or some other reason?

agrieve commented 6 years ago

The reason is just that Chrome team members that were working on this switched to working on PWAs & better Add-to-home-screen.

Blog post about Chrome Apps: https://blog.chromium.org/2016/08/from-chrome-apps-to-web.html

Blog post about Add to home screen: https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/02/improved-add-to-home-screen

bil-ash commented 6 years ago

So may be I could try working on it, if there isn't any other alternatve. Please do let me know if there is any alternative to this plugin which you know

bil-ash commented 6 years ago

@Haemp @agrieve Thanks, for your earlier answer

Haemp commented 6 years ago

@bil-ash This project is really just a wrapper around Cordova with some chrome specific sugar sprinkled in. If your use case is simply to wrap a web-app in an APK then cordoba will do just fine.

Edit There is also a case to be made for just re-evaluating your project in the context of an "Add-to-homescreen"-app which @agrieve just mentioned. You know #usetheplatform ;)