Hey folks, One of the pain points for Cordova users is the inability to have different names for the app itself and the display name as shown on device home screens. For apps with longer app names, this leads to awkward truncation when displayed on the device.
This feature is supported by our three major platforms (iOS, Android, and Windows), as well as being codified in the W3C Widgets spec [1] (which is the basis of config.xml) and the W3C App Manifest spec [2] (which is the standard being used for progressive web apps). There's an open pull request [3] on cordova-common to make our config.xml handling implement the feature as described by the W3C Widgets spec, but there was some disagreement over the best way to implement it. The comments on the PR contain most of the discussion points, but essentially the two options are: 1. Add support for <name short=""> to config.xml to match the W3C Widgets spec into cordova-common and update the platform prepare steps to make use of it. This is the method used in the open pull request. 2. Encourage app developers to make use of the <edit-config> tag to modify the platform-level files via patching. The advantage is that Cordova doesn't become responsible for another config option, and it provides more flexibility for app localizations and other platform-level modifications. >From my perspective, it's clear that this is considered to be a core feature for web apps, given that an equivalent property is included in the newer App Manifest spec. This is a common request [4][5][6] and should be supported via an intuitive property that Cordova takes care of automatically. The problem with delegating to the edit-config tag is that it's largely undocumented (doesn't appear at all under config.xml in our docs), and it doesn't actually work with iOS plist files yet. Adding support for the short attribute doesn't prevent using edit-config for localization or more advanced modifications. Can we try to get consensus on moving forward with this? ~Darryl tl;dr: This is an easy win to fix a common pain point for our users, plz merge cordova-lib#453 [1] https://www.w3.org/TR/widgets/#the-short-attribute [2] https://www.w3.org/TR/appmanifest/#short_name-member [3] https://github.com/apache/cordova-lib/pull/453 [4] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-10916 [5] https://github.com/blakgeek/cordova-plugin-app-name [6] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/28373464/can-i-change-a-cordova-ios-apps-displayed-name-without-changing-the-entire-fi --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@cordova.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@cordova.apache.org
