Do I need @capacitor/angular and @capacitor/assets and what do they do?

Question

I'm building an application with Capacitor but have noticed that @capacitor/angular and @capacitor/assets have not been updated in over a year.

When looking for answers I cannot seem to find reference to them or what they do. Are they required?

Answer 1

@capacitor/assets was updated 3 months ago. It's a tool for generating images for splash screen plugin and app icons. So you don't need it if you generate those manually or with other tooling/software.

@capacitor/angular are schematics for angular that allow to add Capacitor to an angular app in an easier way than manually. So if you run ng add @capacitor/angular it would install the required dependencies and init your project, instead of you installing the dependencies manually and running npx cap init command to init the project.