How to develop plugin with intelisense

You should prepare your example app to have proper platform by running npm run prepare:android (it will create /platform/android folder) before trying to link plugin.

• You don't have to run it if you already have platform folder

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It is expected that plugin is in seperate folder named mobile-sdk-cordova-plugin. Scripts in package.json rely on this folder structure:

[some-path]/mobile-sdk-cordova-example-app
    |------/mobile-sdk-cordova-plugin

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• If your plugin is already added to the example app run npm run rm-plugin to remove it and then run npm run link-plugin (in verbose message you should see that your folders are Linked) to add plugin to example app and link it with source folder /mobile-sdk-cordova-plugin. After linking the plugin you can open /mobile-sdk-cordova-example-app/platforms/android folder in Android Studio and make your changes with full intelisense. When you are done with changes go to the plugin folder and commit/push.
  • If you have nothing to commit after you made changes then the symlink probably does not work. Maybe try again to remove and link, look for Linking in the verbose message. If it is not there, something is wrong and you have to investigate.
• If you want to see the changes in emulated device run npm run run:android instead of npm run buildnrun:android (this would remove your /platforms, /plugins folders and you would lose symlinks)

Problems with building cordova admob plus plugin

Application fails on: No class found for Plugin

You have to enable kotlin for Cordova in config.xml for Android platform

    <platform name="android">
        <preference name="GradlePluginKotlinEnabled" value="true" />
        ....
    </platform>

Build fails on: The binary version of its metadata is x.x.x, expected version is y.y.y.

I haven't found good solution. It is probably some problem with caching in Gradle. You can add specific kotlin x.x.x version to config.xml for Android platform

    <platform name="android">
        <preference name="GradlePluginKotlinVersion" value="x.x.x" />
        ....
    </platform>

If your kotlin version is > 1.7.21 than the build will start failing again because of some deprecated kotlin extension. You have to go to /platforms/android/app/build.gradle and edit

    if (cordovaConfig.IS_GRADLE_PLUGIN_KOTLIN_ENABLED) {
        apply plugin: 'kotlin-android'
        apply plugin: 'kotlin-android-extensions' //remove this line
    }

    android {
        //add to android section
        buildFeatures {
            viewBinding true
        }

        ....
    }

After this change you have to deploy app to emulator by running npm run run:android.