Config.xml ignored in creation process

Question

I am having a problem using the command line tool cordova-cli.

I have followed every step from the documentation:

$ cordova create ~/test com.test test

In this step I want to change the contents of the www folder:

1-Move the sample web page under a src folder. So the contents of the www are:

--www/
|-- config.xml
|-- src/

2-Edit the config.xml with my data and change the content tag to point the correct path of the index.html:

<widget id="com.test" version="0.0.1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/ns/widgets" xmlns:cdv="http://cordova.apache.org/ns/1.0">
  <name>Test</name>
  <description>
                Test
  </description>
  <author email="[email protected]" href="http://sample.com/">
              Foo Bar
  </author>
  <content src="src/index.html"/>
  <access origin="*" />
  <preference name="fullscreen" value="true" />
  <preference name="webviewbounce" value="false" />
  <preference name="UIWebViewBounce" value="false" />    
</widget>

With this file changed I continue with the general steps (from the root of the project):

Add iOS platform:

$ cordova platform add ios

And then build the project:

$ cordova build

Now, if I open the project under test/platforms/ios/test I see a config.xml with a default content as:

<widget id="io.cordova.helloCordova" version="2.0.0" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/ns/widgets">
    <name>Hello Cordova</name>
    <description>
        A sample Apache Cordova application that responds to the deviceready event.
    </description>
    <author email="[email protected]" href="http://cordova.io">
        Apache Cordova Team
    </author>
    <content src="index.html" />
    <feature name="LocalStorage">
        <param name="ios-package" value="CDVLocalStorage" />
    </feature>
    <access origin="*" />
    <preference name="KeyboardDisplayRequiresUserAction" value="true" />
    <preference name="SuppressesIncrementalRendering" value="false" />
    <preference name="UIWebViewBounce" value="false" />
    <preference name="TopActivityIndicator" value="gray" />
    <preference name="EnableLocation" value="false" />
    <preference name="EnableViewportScale" value="false" />
    <preference name="AutoHideSplashScreen" value="true" />
    <preference name="ShowSplashScreenSpinner" value="true" />
    <preference name="MediaPlaybackRequiresUserAction" value="false" />
    <preference name="AllowInlineMediaPlayback" value="false" />
    <preference name="OpenAllWhitelistURLsInWebView" value="false" />
    <preference name="BackupWebStorage" value="cloud" />
    <preference name="fullscreen" value="true" />
    <preference name="webviewbounce" value="false" />
</widget>

Notice that UIWebViewBounce preference is correct, but the content tag is incorrect, as well as the author tag, description and name.

If then I run the app it fails, as it tries to open the www/index.html instead of www/src/index.html.

Am I doing something wrong?

NOTE

The contents of the test/www is copied correctly into test/platforms/ios/www.

I'm having the exact same issue, expect I'm trying to set the icon in the www/config.xml file. — LandonSchropp
Yes, I'm having both of these issues (content src and res icons). It's updating the version and app name on build, but basically ignoring everything else. I'm running it on Windows 8. What OS are you using? — Joshua

Jonathan Naguin Jonathan Naguin · Accepted Answer · 2013-08-02T07:44:20

This is not a real answer, but I opened two tickets in Cordova's JIRA regarding this problem here and here.

Currently Cordova client does not support this features in the config.xml. You will need to modify the icons and splashscreens manually at this time as well the content tag in every platform project. Notice that you only have to do this once as Cordova maintain the config.xml changes and other resources as images.

Likely, a next version will include these features.

More info:

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-2606

UPDATE:

It seems that this issue has been solved in this pull request. It will available in the next release of Cordova.

Config.xml ignored in creation process

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