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PhoneGap Plugins

Extending your app.

Table of Contents

  1. Official Plugins
  2. Third-party Plugins
  3. Install, Remove, and List Plugins

PhoneGap plugins allow you to enhance and extend the functionality of your hybrid app. For example, you could add accelerometer, camera, file, or push notification support using plugins.

Official Plugins

You can learn about the official plugins on the PhoneGap Docs.

The plugins that we officially support are:

  • Battery Status
  • Camera
  • Contacts
  • Device
  • Device Motion (Accelerometer)
  • Device Orientation (Compass)
  • Dialogs
  • FileSystem
  • File Transfer
  • Geolocation
  • Globalization
  • InAppBrowser
  • Media
  • Media Capture
  • Network Information (Connection)
  • Splashscreen
  • Vibration

Third-party Plugins

If the official plugins don't cut it, then you can checkout all of our community plugins at plugins.cordova.io!

Install, Remove, and List Plugins

You learn about the plugin usage by running:

$ phonegap plugin help

Install a plugin:

$ phonegap plugin add org.apache.cordova.device

List installed plugins:

$ phonegap plugin list

Remove a plugin:

$ phonegap plugin remove org.apache.cordova.device