Cordova AndroidX Build plugin

What is this plugin?

Google introduced AndroidX libraries which replaces old Android support libraries.

Since Cordova will introduce AndroidX from cordova-android@9, however your plugin needs to support both with AndroidX and without AndroidX.

This plugin migrates user's project code to AndroidX automatically when your plugin code is build at the time. If the project does not specify AndroidX, this plugin migrates the user's project code migrates Android Support Library.

How to use this plugin?

Just install this plugin

$ cordova plugin add cordova-androidx-build

Or use this plugin as dependency in your plugin.xml

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<plugin ...>
  <platform name="android">
    ...
    <dependency id="cordova-androidx-build" />  <-- Add this line
  </platform>
</plugin>

How does this plugin work?

The purpose of this plugin is to build your plugin code on any environments. That's why this plugin has two migrates mode:

• If AndroidX is not available: this plugin changes the project code migrates to support library.

• If AndroidX is available: this plugin changed the project code migrates to AndroidX.

What's the difference between cordova-plugin-androidx-adapter?

cordova-plugin-androidx-adapter migrates your plugin code to AndroidX. This plugin also migrates your plugin code to AndroidX.

However cordova-plugin-androidx-adapter works on only your PC, because it uses Cordova Hook Script mechanism. Because of this, cordova-plugin-androidx-adapter does NOT work on cloud build services, such as PhoneGap Build.

In order to solve this problem, this plugin is written by Gradle script, which works on your PC or cloud build services.

	cordova-plugin-androidx-adapter	cordova-androidx-build
support library -> AndroidX	✅	✅
support library <- AndroidX	❌	✅
work on PC	✅	✅
work on cloud services	❌	✅
when execute the process	after cordova prepare	gradle sync
mechanism	cordova hook script	gradle