How to Change Widget/App ID or Package Name for each platform?

[Hendy Irawan]

Hi,

By default Cordova/PhoneGap uses the widget id from www/config.xml to generate the AndroidManifest.xml containing "package" attribute.

However, in my case I already had an app in Google Play with package "com.dietyuk.android". Renaming my www/config.xml to "com.dietyuk.android" doesn't make sense for other platforms. However if I change the widget ID to a generic one, say "com.dietyuk.mobile", then I won't be able to upload the app to Google Play because the package name changes.

I tried renaming the widget ID in "platforms/android/res/xml/config.xml", however when I run "cordova/phonegap build", the ID gets regenerated using the ID from the main www/config.xml file.

How do I set the package name/ID for each target platform?

Thank you.

Hendy

[Sebastian Zillessen]

Hi Hendy,

well I use two bundle ids for our application. You can just change the value for the id in the www/config.xml file and then run your cordova build script. The only problem is, that the folder structure does not rename on changing, so you might get two Folders in your android project directory. But for me this works quit good. 

I'm using GRUNT to build, compile and rename all things in my application. So you can even use SASS and COMPASS in your build environment. I've a task for building my iOS and android application as well, and there I just replace the widget id according to my target and then run cordova build .

replace: {

      releasetest: {

        src: [

          'www/config.xml'

        ],             // source files array (supports minimatch)

        overwrite: true,

        replacements: [

          {

            from: /widget id="[A-Za-z]+\.[A-Za-z]+\.[A-Za-z]+"/i,     

            to: 'widget id="de.some.sometest"'

          }

        ]

      },

      releaseios: {

        src: ['www/config.xml'],          

        overwrite: true,

        replacements: [

          {

            from: /widget id="[A-Za-z]+\.[A-Za-z]+\.[A-Za-z]+"/i,   

            to: 'widget id="de.some.ios"'

          }

        ]

      },

      releaseandroid: {

        src: ['www/config.xml'],             

        overwrite: true,

        replacements: [

          {

            from: /widget id="[A-Za-z]+\.[A-Za-z]+\.[A-Za-z]+"/i,    

            to: 'widget id="de.some.android"'

          }

        ]

      }

    }

If you are interested to the rest of my Gruntfile I can send it to you as well.

[Hendy Irawan]

Thanks Sebastian.

I have a feeling this is common expectation and it should be handled natively by Cordova. Probably using a preference.

Would be a good feature request? :)

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[hooinator]

Hi Sebastian,

I'm running into the same issue. If would love to see the entire Gruntfile if you're willing to share with me.

Thanks,

Dave

[Filype Pereira]

I am using the build.phonegap.com, I was hoping you got other replies to your initial question.

Do you know if there's a way to apply different bundle ID's for different platforms through www/config.xml ?  Did you submit this as a feature?

Thanks,

Filype

[Kevin Stumpf]

When building your app with cordova, you can use the config.xml "widget" element's attributes "android_packageName" and "ios_CFBundleIdentifier" to set platform specific app ids.

It's not well documented but you can find it in their code: https://github.com/apache/cordova-lib/blob/master/cordova-lib/src/configparser/ConfigParser.js#L92

- Kevin

[Richard Kimber]

Thanks Kevin. That saved me a lot of grief. Rich