Scope

This chapter focuses on how you can extend PhoneGap functionality to expose more of your native code.

However, please note that even if you write PhoneGap plug-ins, the only way to inject the plug-in is to add the plug-in source to your project. There is currently no way to build a plug-in into a package and add the package to your PhoneGap project. This stops you using your custom plug-ins when you are using PhoneGap build.

For this chapter, let's keep the nature of the plug-in very simple. We call this a helloworld plug-in. We pass a name to the plug-in, and we get back a string “Hello <name>! The time now is <Current Time>”.

This way, we focus mainly on the bridge aspect of the plug-in.