Building a Custom Cordova plugin for iOS

When looked for some sample to do this, found the article given in the reference section. In this example, when a text is sent from the browser, it is written to native file system using the FileWriter iOS class. 

First step is to create a cordova project. the command is as below. 

$ cordova create . CustomPlugin CustomPlugin

Creating a new cordova project.

Then added the iOS platform using the below command 

$ sudo cordova platform add ios 

Then ran the project and could see the cordova splash screen. 

To develop a custom plugin, added the feature tag to the config.xml file like below right under the tag 

name="FileWriter">

        name="ios-package" value="FileWriter" />

   

Below was the header definition of FileWriter header file. 

#import

@interface FileWriter : CDVPlugin

// This will return the file contents in a JSON object via the getFileContents utility method

- (void) cordovaGetFileContents:(CDVInvokedUrlCommand *)command;

// This will accept a String and call setFileContents to persist the String on to disk

- (void) cordovaSetFileContents:(CDVInvokedUrlCommand *)command;

#pragma mark - Util_Methods

// Pure native code to persist data

- (void) setFileContents;

// Native code to load data from disk and return the String.

- (NSString *) getFileContents;

@end

References:

http://moduscreate.com/building-a-custom-phonegap-plugin-for-ios/