Pass app id, name and version to build command.

Feature Request

Motivation Behind Feature

For a monorepo with single dependencies, a single config.xml I have to change the xml before build. It would be better if there is an option to pass these parameters to the build or run command. To set the app id, name and version. Without changing the config.xml. All other settings (incl. plugins) are shared for all apps.

Feature Description

cordova build android --release --app-id="com.foo.bar" --app-name="Foo Bar" --app-version="1.2.3"
cordova run android --app-id="com.test.me" --app-name="Test App" --app-version="0.0.0"

Parameter	Description
app-id	The app id like in config.xml widget.$.id.
app-version	The app version like in config.xml widget.$.version.
app-name	The app name like in config.xml widget.name.

config.xml

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<widget id="com.foo.bar" version="1.2.3"
  xmlns="http://www.w3.org/ns/widgets"
  xmlns:cdv="http://cordova.apache.org/ns/1.0">
  <name>Foo Bar</name>
  <!-- etc -->
</widget>

Alternatives or Workarounds

I have to update the config.xml with a xml parser. It’s a custom implementation. I also don’t want this git changes.

[dpogue]

This is unlikely to be implemented at the Cordova level, because things like changing the app ID in between commands will break the native projects.

If you’re wanting to generate multiple native projects with different settings from a single repo, I have written a tool (seymour) that will create and build projects with settings coming in from environment variables, which might be similar to what you’re looking for.

[dpogue]

All the config.xml parsing happens with cordova-common’s ConfigParser: https://github.com/apache/cordova-common/blob/master/src/ConfigParser/ConfigParser.js

Note that this sometimes gets extended/patched in the various platforms to add platform-specific methods to it.