Phonegap Plugin - append lines to app delegate

Question

I'm developing a phonegap plugin. So far so good. Now I would like to append 1 or 2 methods to the AppDelegate.m through the config.xml so it will be populated for the developer automatically. Is it possible?

Thanks.

If you find a solution I would love to know how to do this. – Dawson Loudon Jan 31 '14 at 22:17 — Dawson Loudon, Jan 31 '14 at 22:17

jcesarmobile · Accepted Answer · 2014-03-05T08:59:29.970

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take a look into the Push Plugin, they use an objective-c category for the appDelegate

https://github.com/phonegap-build/PushPlugin

If you just want to be notified when the app becomes active you don't need to change anything on the AppDelegate, just put this on your plugin:

[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self selector:@selector(onAppDidBecomeActive:) name:UIApplicationDidBecomeActiveNotification object:nil]; 

- (void)onAppDidBecomeActive:(NSNotification*)notification
{

     NSLog(@"%@",@"applicationDidBecomeActive");

}

edited Mar 05 '14 at 08:59

answered Mar 05 '14 at 08:04

jcesarmobile

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Thanks, but I'm not sure how it works. In the "regular" AppDelegate, will I be notify on app become active and etc.? – Asaf Mar 05 '14 at 08:22
If you just want to be notified when the app becomes active you don't need to change anything on the AppDelegate, just put this on your plugin: [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self selector:@selector(onAppDidBecomeActive:) name:UIApplicationDidBecomeActiveNotification object:nil]; – jcesarmobile Mar 05 '14 at 08:58

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 09 '19 at 17:54

If you do need to override some other method, like if iOS doesn't issue a notification for some app delegate method, you can do it with method swizzling. jcesarmobile mentioned this repo in his answer, but a file with an example is:

https://github.com/phonegap-build/PushPlugin/blob/master/src/ios/AppDelegate%2Bnotification.m

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