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Setup twitter fabric sdk for cordova plugin

I'm trying to use Twitter login in my app using cordova, and I haven't found any plugin allowing to perform native login using the installed Twitter app credential.

So i want to create my own plugin, but I'm stuck on how to integrate Twitter sdk into my plugin.xml file. According to twitter's documentation, i'm supposed to edit my build.gradle to include the Maven repository and apply Fabric

 buildscript {
  repositories {
   jcenter()
   maven { url 'https://maven.fabric.io/repo' }
  }
 dependencies {
  classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:0.13.3'
  // The Fabric Gradle plugin uses an open ended version to
  // react quickly to Android tooling updates
  classpath 'io.fabric.tools:gradle:1.+'
 }
}

apply plugin: 'com.android.application'

//Put Fabric plugin after Android plugin
apply plugin: 'io.fabric'

repositories {
 jcenter()
 maven { url 'https://maven.fabric.io/repo' }
}

My problem is, I have no idea how to do that in my plugin.xml file, and cordova plugin documentation doesn't talk about that.

Can anybody help?

Solution

  • With the release of Cordova v5.0.0 and Cordova Android v4.0.0 Gradle is replacing Ant as the default build system. Here are the changes you might find interesting:

    Changes For Plugin Developers:

    Build using Gradle

    • All builds use Gradle by default, instead of Ant
    • Plugins can add their own gradle build steps!
    • Plugins can depend on Maven libraries using tags

    So plugins can also include build-extras.gradle files via:

    <framework src="some.gradle" custom="true" type="gradleReference" />