diff --git a/guides/CordovaWebView Guide.md b/guides/CordovaWebView Guide.md deleted file mode 100644 index 34bbb437..00000000 --- a/guides/CordovaWebView Guide.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,53 +0,0 @@ -# How to use Cordova as a component # - -Beginning in Cordova 1.8, with the assistance of the CordovaActivity, you can use Cordova as a component in your Android applications. This component is known in Android -as the CordovaWebView, and new Cordova-based applications from 1.8 and greater will be using the CordovaWebView as its main view, whether the legacy DroidGap approach is -used or not. - - -The pre-requisites are the same as the pre-requisites for Android application development. It is assumed that you are familiar with Android Development. If not, please -look at the Getting Started guide to developing an Cordova Application and start there before continuing with this approach. Since this is not the main method that people use -to run applications, the instructions are currently manual. In the future, we may try to further automate the project generation. - -## Pre-requisites ## - -1. **Cordova 1.8** or greater downloaded -2. Android SDK updated with 15 - -## Guide to using CordovaWebView in an Android Project ## - -1. Use bin/create to fetch the commons-codec-1.6.jar -2. Go into framework and run ant jar to build the cordova jar (currently cordova-1.8.jar at the time of writing) -3. Copy the cordova jar into your Android project libs directory -4. Edit your main.xml to look similar the following. The layout_height, layout_width and ID can be modified to suit your application: - -` $ -` - -5. Modify your activity so that it implements the CordovaInterface. It is recommended that you implement the methods that are included. You may wish to copy the methods from framework/src/org/apache/cordova/DroidGap.java, or you may wish to implement your own methods. Below is a fragment of code from a basic application that uses the interface: - -` -public class CordovaViewTestActivity extends Activity implements CordovaInterface {$ - CordovaWebView phoneGap;$ - $ - /** Called when the activity is first created. */$ - @Override$ - public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {$ - super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);$ - setContentView(R.layout.main);$ - $ - phoneGap = (CordovaWebView) findViewById(R.id.phoneGapView);$ - $ - phoneGap.loadUrl("file:///android_asset/www/index.html");$ - }$ -` - -6. Copy the HTML and Javascript used to the assets directory of your Android project -7. Copy cordova.xml and plugins.xml from framework/res/xml to the framework/res/xml in your project - - - -