Meteor 0.9.2-rc1 is fun to play with, Cordova support functional

Last night I started playing with `meteor –release 0.9.2-rc1` which you can read about and play with too; check it out here:

https://meteor.hackpad.com/Getting-Started-With-Cordova-Z5n6zkVB1xq

It’s wonderful!

The local development and hot-code-push is a great improvement over any other solution I’ve been using. Builds were painless (mostly).

Most of my stumbling points were due to 9x, not the new Cordova stuff.

A few interesting details…

Cordova gets built here:

So far, nothing easy in regards to configuring Cordova, but I’d guess we can edit the config.xml files… I’d love to see an app icon builder package sometime…

• point it at a source and it renders all sizes
• or it allows you to specify versions for every size
• it would recreate the XML config needed for all icons and rename them as needed

Plugins FTW

Installing Cordova plugins probably *should* be done via Meteor Packages, because it’s an awesome approach.

Here is my first attempt:

https://github.com/zeroasterisk/meteor-cordova-geolocation-background

Currently I’m working on integration and configuration code (porting from a non-package code over the next few days), but the Cordova build system seems to have correctly found and installed the right plugins for me:

I expect to see a lot of new Meteor Cordova plugins soon.

It’s a brave new world.