Adding 3rd party plugins to capacitor app

[luisdev]

I’m having an issue installing this “capacitor-navigationbar” plugin to my Capacitor app. I found my MainActivity.java file, however I do not know where I import the module as the plugin docs suggest I do. Any guidence will be extremely appreciated, thanks!

[luisdev]

Found out how its done:

cd into src-capacitor folder: npm install capacitor-plugin-name

then open file at src-capacitor/android/app/src/main/java/MainActivity.java

there you will:
import com.plugin-name
and
add(plugin-name)

make sure neither your server nor your quasar client server is running otherwise you’ll get a bunch of ‘mkdir’ errors*

then while remaining in src-capacitor you will run “npx cap sync android”

go back to your quasar client and run “quasar dev -m capacitor -T android”

make sure your server is still off and update your gradle on Android studio

afterwards you will find the new plugin inside Plugins object in “@capacitor/core”

you should be set to go. You’re welcome fellow newbie!

[DavidGo]

I’m following those steps, but having an error:
error: cannot access CordovaPlugin add(BarcodeScanner.class);
class file for org.apache.cordova.CordovaPlugin not found

[DavidGo]

Never mind, BarcodeScanner plugin works without adding it to MainActivity.java

[dobbel]

When using Capacitor or Cordova plugins you should never not have to change .java files.

[metalsadman]

@dobbel in capacitor you do have to change it in some cases for registering plugins or when you are using local java files, it’s a nice feature of capacitor actually.