When we return JSON to the Java side it does not have the proper methods such as Contact.save() so we need to cast the JSON to the correct JS object. This used to be done from the Java layer calling the right method to cast the JSON. In this new approach the JavaScript layer will no what needs to be cast and call it's own internal function to do the cast.
A solution was needed to notify the audio player to pause when a phone call comes in. The option was to add a specific onPhone() method or generalize it. Since there are other "events" that are useful to plugins, a generalized solution was used. It is also extensible without changing the plugin API again.
Any plugin can call DroidGap.onMessage() to send a message/event to all other plugins. NetworkManager was updated to send changes in connection status to plugins, so they can intelligently handle lost connections.
1. Make handling of multi-page apps consistent with iOS and Blackberry to load into same webview (instead of starting a new activity).
2. Make lifecycle consistent. pause is called when going into background, resume is called when coming into foreground. It is no longer called when loading or leaving an HTML page. Use window.onload/onunload to get these notifications.
http://www.w3.org/TR/file-system-api/
User can retrieve PERSISTENT and TEMPORARY file systems, list their
contents, and manipulate files and directories within them.
Modify existing FileWriter implementation
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- Change the way user creates a FileWriter. User must either pass a
File object to the FileWriter constructor, or use the
FileEntry.createWriter() method.
- Drop support for the 'filePath' and 'append' parameters in the
FileWriter constructor. The file path is determined from either the
File object passed to the FileWriter constructor, or the FileEntry
object used to create the FileWriter. To append to a file, use the
FileWriter object's seek method:
// writer is a FileWriter object
// seek to length of file to append
writer.seek(writer.length);
Replace FileMgr JavaScript APIs not specified in any File API spec
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- Remove navigator.fileMgr.createDirectory(dirName) function. To
create a directory, use the DirectoryEntry.getDirectory() method,
which is part of the File API: Directories and System spec. Set
the Flags.create to 'true':
// directory is a DirectoryEntry object
directory.getDirectory(path, {create:true}, successCB, failCB);
- Remove navigator.fileMgr.getRootPaths() function. To retrieve the
root file systems, use the window.requestFileSystem() function,
which is part of the File API: Directories and System spec.
- Remove navigator.fileMgr.getFileProperties(fileName) function. To
get the properties of a file, use the FileEntry.file() method, which
is part of the File API: Directories and System spec.
- Remove navigator.fileMgr.deleteFile(fileName) function. To delete a
file, use the Entry.remove() method, which is part of the File API:
Directories and System spec.
- Remove navigator.fileMgr.deleteDirectory(dirName) function. To
delete a directory, use the Entry.remove() (if it is empty), or
DirectoryEntry.removeRecursively() methods, which are part of the
File API: Directories and System spec.
Clean up existing FileManager native code. Move some functionality to
file utility class.
Joe Bowser