Capacitor 3.x Plugins

[imhoffd]

Welcome to the plugin planning issue! This issue is now closed because the work described by it has been complete! See the plugins repo. Subscribe to #3133 for higher-level updates on Capacitor 3. Thanks!

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As part of planning for Capacitor 3, the team has rethought core plugins. The concept of Capacitor being "batteries-included" is attractive, but additional use cases (e.g. "Embedded Capacitor"), App Store warnings and rejections and app bloating and slowdowns (e.g. #4038, #2992, #1942), and better available alternatives (e.g. community or third-party plugins that are better than a core plugin), have caused us to reevaluate including the core plugins in Capacitor.

While we may be splitting plugins into their own packages, the Capacitor CLI may still offer a set of plugins to be installed by default (and optionally excluded or uninstalled). We call these included plugins (✅).

See Rethinking Plugins in the Capacitor 3 Upgrade Guide to learn more about how apps and plugins will be affected by these changes.

Decision Legend

Icon	Meaning
⚪	Keep plugin in Capacitor core (API may change).
⚫	Move plugin from Capacitor core into a new official plugin (import will change, API may change).
🔴	Delete the plugin.

Plugins

Plugin	Decision	Included	Assignee	Status
Accessibility	⚫		@dwieeb	published (@capacitor/screen-reader)
App	⚫	✅	@jcesarmobile	published (@capacitor/app)
Background Task	🔴
Browser	⚫		@ikeith	published (@capacitor/browser)
Camera	⚫		@ikeith	published (@capacitor/camera)
Clipboard	⚫		@carlpoole	published (@capacitor/clipboard)
Console	⚪
Device	⚫		@jcesarmobile	published (@capacitor/device)
Filesystem	⚫		@jcesarmobile	published (@capacitor/filesystem)
Geolocation	⚫		@carlpoole	published (@capacitor/geolocation)
Haptics	⚫	✅	@jcesarmobile	published (@capacitor/haptics)
Keyboard	⚫	✅	@jcesarmobile	published (@capacitor/keyboard)
Local Notifications	⚫		@theproducer	published (@capacitor/local-notifications)
Modals	⚫			split into @capacitor/action-sheet and @capacitor/dialog
Motion	⚫		@jcesarmobile	published (@capacitor/motion)
Network	⚫		@ikeith	published (@capacitor/network)
Permissions	🔴		@jcesarmobile	done (#3386)
Photos	🔴		@jcesarmobile	done (#3385)
Push Notifications	⚫		@theproducer	published (@capacitor/push-notifications)
Share	⚫		@jcesarmobile	published (@capacitor/share)
Splash Screen	⚫	✅
Status Bar	⚫	✅	@jcesarmobile	published (@capacitor/status-bar)
Storage	⚫		@dwieeb	published (@capacitor/storage)
Toast	⚫		@jcesarmobile	published (@capacitor/toast)
WebView	⚪

[imhoffd]

Accessibility is now in progress: ionic-team/capacitor-plugins#1, #3364, ionic-team/capacitor-testapp#2
Clipboard is now in progress: ionic-team/capacitor-plugins#6
Haptics is now in progress: ionic-team/capacitor-plugins#5, #3363

[jcesarmobile]

I've sent PRs to remove Photos #3385 and Permissions #3386 plugins. Since we are doing a few refactors, the sooner we remove those files the better.

[carlpoole]

Geolocation is in progress: ionic-team/capacitor-plugins#13

[imhoffd]

Storage is in progress: ionic-team/capacitor-plugins#15

[ikeith]

Browser is in progress: ionic-team/capacitor-plugins#16

[jcesarmobile]

Filesystem is in progres: ionic-team/capacitor-plugins#19

[imhoffd]

Published the following plugins to npm:

• @capacitor/haptics
• @capacitor/motion
• @capacitor/screen-reader
• @capacitor/storage
• @capacitor/text-zoom

[ikeith]

Camera is in progress: ionic-team/capacitor-plugins#33

[jcesarmobile]

share is in progress: ionic-team/capacitor-plugins#39

[jcesarmobile]

dialog: ionic-team/capacitor-plugins#44
action sheet: ionic-team/capacitor-plugins#42
device is in progress: ionic-team/capacitor-plugins#47

[jcesarmobile]

toast is in progress: ionic-team/capacitor-plugins#52
Statusbar is in progres ionic-team/capacitor-plugins#58

[jcesarmobile]

keyboard ionic-team/capacitor-plugins#59

[imhoffd]

Published the following to npm:

 - @capacitor/[email protected]
 - @capacitor/[email protected]
 - @capacitor/[email protected]
 - @capacitor/[email protected]
 - @capacitor/[email protected]
 - @capacitor/[email protected]
 - @capacitor/[email protected]
 - @capacitor/[email protected]
 - @capacitor/[email protected]
 - @capacitor/[email protected]
 - @capacitor/[email protected]
 - @capacitor/[email protected]

[imhoffd]

Published the following to npm:

• @capacitor/app
• @capacitor/browser
• @capacitor/keyboard
• @capacitor/status-bar

Additionally, Local Notifications is in progress: ionic-team/capacitor-plugins#94

[imhoffd]

Published the following to npm:

• @capacitor/local-notifications
• @capacitor/push-notifications

This issue can now be closed. We have ported all the plugins! 3.0.0-beta.0 will be released shortly.