As I mentioned in my previous posts, we’ve been working on a new way for supporting plugins in the Mobile app.
We published an initial draft specification and last month we started its implementation, during the implementation process we decided to make the following changes to the initial plans in order to make developers life easier:
There will be just one way to support plugins in the app.
This new way will allow developers to support plugins using PHP code, templates and Ionic markup (html components).
The use of Javascript will be optional (but some type of advanced plugins may require it)
This means that remote add-ons won’t be necessary anymore and developers won’t have to learn Ionic 3 / Angular and set-up a new mobile development environment to migrate them.
We’ll be updating the existing documentation during this week, providing examples (already developed) so developers will have at least 3 months to update their existing remote add-ons to the new simpler way.
Note also that if you are using “Remote themes” you will need to update them to match the new app styles (we’ll update the documentation soon so you can do it in advance keeping backward compatibility with older versions).
Please, don’t hesitate to contact us (via this forum in a public conversation) if you developed a remote add-on and you may need assistance once we've published the docs.