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Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 09:27:43 +0000
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Subject: Re: Changing config.xml settings at runtime
From: Brian LeRoux <b@brian.io>
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Hmm. Tricky: can an app modify the whitelist at runtime then?
(Probably not a good idea.)

On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 7:01 PM, Andrew Grieve <agrieve@chromium.org> wrote:
> First - I'd like to add yet another setting for iOS:
>
> KeyboardShrinksView (boolean).
>
> It applies to apps that position their elements relative to the bottom of
> the webview. When the keyboard comes up, I'd like to shrink the webview
> rather than shrink the viewport and have the page scrollable. This is the
> default behaviour on Android, and makes a lot of sense when building apps
> as opposed to webpages.
>
>
> But... Reason for this email, is I think it'd be useful to have a
> x-platform API for changing the settings within config.xml at runtime.
> Something like:
>
> cordova.setConfigValue(key, value)
>
> An example of the keyboard case:
> app.onPageChange = function(pageName) {
>   cordova.setConfigValue('KeyboardShrinksView', pageName != 'help');
> };
>
> And I suppose adding a getter makes sense:
> cordova.getConfigValues(successCallback)
>
> I'm thinking that setting these at runtime will *not* persist across app
> restarts to avoid the issue of what should happen when devs push updates to
> their apps that change settings around.
>
> If everyone's okay with this, I'll file a bug & sub-bugs per-platform.