Capacitor

How to use Capacitor to deploy your apps?

The Capacitor workflow involves a few consistent tasks:

• ​Develop and build your Web App​

• ​Copy your Web Assets​

• ​Open your Native IDE​

• ​Periodic Maintenance​

iOS Platform

This app has an iOS folder which contains the iOS native app. Read how to build this app for iOS.

Android Platform

This app has an Android folder which contains the Android native app. Read how to build this app for Android.

How to remove Capacitor and use Cordova?

• Delete ios, android and .gradle folders

• Delete capacitor.config.json

• Run: ionic cordova platform add ios

• Run: ionic cordova platform add android

You will have to change the Capacitor plugins for Ionic Native plugins.

Install Ionic Native by running:

npm install @ionic-native/core @ionic-native/status-bar @ionic-native/splash-screen --save

Go to app.component.tsand do the following:

Remove:

import { Plugins } from '@capacitor/core';
const { SplashScreen } = Plugins;

Add:

import { SplashScreen } from '@ionic-native/splash-screen/ngx';
import { StatusBar } from '@ionic-native/status-bar/ngx';
import { Platform } from '@ionic/angular';

Change the initializeApp() method for the following code:

initializeApp() {
    this.platform.ready().then(() => {
      this.statusBar.styleDefault();
      this.splashScreen.hide();
    });
  }

Add the following parameters to the constructor:

  constructor(..., 
    private platform: Platform,
    private splashScreen: SplashScreen,
    private statusBar: StatusBar)

Now go to app.module.ts and add the following:

import { SplashScreen } from '@ionic-native/splash-screen/ngx';
import { StatusBar } from '@ionic-native/status-bar/ngx';

Then add them as providers of the module:

  providers: [
    StatusBar,
    SplashScreen,
    ...
  ],

Now if you run ionic serve everything should work fine.

Now you can safely remove the Capacitor dependencies from your package.json.

npm uninstall --save @capacitor/android
npm uninstall --save @capacitor/cli
npm uninstall --save @capacitor/core
npm uninstall --save @capacitor/ios