I'm trying to develop an app for iOS and Android using PhoneGap, but am faced with a problem I cannot seem to find an answer for. It's probably a newbie mistake but maybe someone can point me in the right direction. Here's my environment:
1) PhoneGap version is 6.5.0. Cordova version I just upgraded to 7.0.0.
2) OS X El Capitan (10.11).
3) PhoneGap Developer App installed on iPhone running iOS 10.
4) Hello World example application (but it fails with my real app as well in the same way).
The issue is that if I add a new plugin to config.xml, located at the project root folder, then I see the plugin gets downloaded into the plugins folder, but I can't ever get an instance of it after the deviceready event has fired.
For instance, if I add this to config.xml:
<plugin name="cordova-plugin-ace" spec="https://github.com/microsoft/ace.git" />
If the app gets served up to my iPhone using either the PhoneGap desktop app or the CLI command "phonegap serve", and I alert out window.ace in the deviceready handler, the value is "undefined".
However, if I execute "cordova run ios" to run the app through the simulator, then window.ace is defined and working.
Also, if I change the content src attribute to point to another file, again it works with "cordova run ios", but not with the PhoneGap developer app, which always seems to serve up index.html. I've seen a post from a user who had the same problem there, and the suggestion was that the developer app does not read config.xml. I have proved this is not the case, by deliberately putting errors in there, which are caught.
Can anybody tell me what I am doing wrong, because if I cannot add plugins, it kind of makes the PhoneGap developer app useless?
