Cordova – How to force cordova to recompile added plugins

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It seems cordova caches compiled plugins, when i change the source code of plugins (.java files on windows), the only way to force cordova to recompile the plugin is to remove and then add that plugin again, which is a pain .
Is there any way to clean cordova cache or force it to recompile added plugins ?

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Afaik there's no way to recompile the original files.

The quickest and most dirty way (still the best for quick checks) is to change the files under

e.g. (Android)

platforms/android/src/YOUR_PACKAGE/FILE_TO_CHANGE

that way it's automatically recompiled.

Obviously this file can be easily deleted or overwritten so it's just a way to quickly test SMALL changes.

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Android – Removing cordova plugins from the project

First, you should list your plugins:

cordova plugin list

With this result, you can simply do:

cordova plugin remove <PLUGIN_NAME>

For example:

cordova plugin remove org.apache.cordova.media

Hope it helps.

Cordova – How to update cordova (phonegap) plugin in the project

So eventually I found the issue.

It seems, that there is a some sort of dependency between org.apache.cordova.file and org.apache.cordova.file-transfer. So if file-transfer plugin is installed, file plugin will not be removed, hence not updated if platform folders.

The solution is to remove file-transfer plugin first and then remove file plugin. Then adding file and file-transfer plugins will update those plugins in all platforms correctly, as one would expect.

Took some time to figure out, but does the trick.

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Android – Removing cordova plugins from the project

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