Load PlugIns in extern url

[Torben]

Hi AppBuilder-Community!

I like App-Builder, its pretty cool!

What I want to do, is:
-load an external url (I do that by defining content source in config.xml android only)
-from this url I want to call internal plugin like barcodescanner

In external url I load sources:
-cordova.android.js
-Plugins/BarcodeScanner/barcodescanner.js

but plugin call fails..
same I did on local site and there it works.

my config.xml:
<access origin="http://127.0.0.1*"/> <!-- allow local pages -->
<access origin="*"/>
<content src="http://www.domain.com/index.html" />

Am I missing something or is it quiet not possible?

Greeting, Torben

[Steve]

Hi Torben,

Cordova plugins can only be started and accessed from the local files of the app via the javascript to native bridge. In general we do not recommend setting external url as starting page for your app. If we understand your idea correctly, you wish to use an existing web site for the creation of a mobile app. This is not a good idea for many reasons which we would not list here (lots of info on the net), but the main one being that you app would be rejected from Apple App Store and Google Play, because one of the requirements is for the app not to be a representation of a web site.

Regards,
Steve
Telerik

[Torben]

Thanks for your reply Steve! It would be only two pages. I thought thats no problem, but you are right, thats no clean solution.

Greetings,
Torben