Deprecated Apache Cordova components

July 12, 2022 · View on GitHub

Apache Cordova is a relatively old project. As such, we deprecated serveral of our components and ceased supporting and developing them over the years. (Read more about the process behind this in cordova-contribute / Deprecation and Archiving.)

Deprecated Platforms

Deprecated Core Plugins

cordova-plugin-compat

Date: 2017-09
Deprecation announcement: https://cordova.apache.org/news/2017/09/22/plugins-release.html
Reason: cordova-plugin-compat has been integrated into the cordova-android 6.3.0 release. The plugin should be removed from projects using this or newer versions of cordova-android

cordova-plugin-console

Date: 2017-09
Deprecation announcement: https://cordova.apache.org/news/2017/09/22/plugins-release.html
Reason: The plugin functionality was integrated into cordova-ios 4.5.0+. The plugin was not needed any more.

cordova-plugin-contacts

Date: 2017-11
Deprecation announcement: https://cordova.apache.org/news/2017/11/27/Deprecation-of-cordova-contacts-plugin.html
Reason: various privacy and security issues

cordova-plugin-globalization

Date: 2017-11
Reason: Replacement ECMA Internationalization API available in all relevant platforms
Deprecation announcement and Migration guide: https://cordova.apache.org/news/2017/11/20/migrate-from-cordova-globalization-plugin.html

cordova-plugin-wkwebview-engine

Date: 2021-02
Reason: WKWebView implementation is now provided by cordova-ios@6 making this plugin obsolete.
Deprecation announcement and Migration guide: https://cordova.apache.org/2021/02/07/deprecate-wkwebview-engine.html

cordova-plugin-legacy-whitelist

Deprecated Tooling

apache/cordova-medic