Extending your Cordova iOS application with a native plugin

How to do it...

In this recipe, we will create a native iOS plugin for our Cordova application using command-line tools, as suggested by Cordova. We will implement the plugin for Android that we created in the previous recipe to work with iOS:

1. Change the working project to helloplugin, open plugin.xml, and add information about the new iOS platform:

     <platform name="ios">
   
       <config-file target="config.xml" parent="/widget">
         <feature name="Hello">
           <param name="ios-package" value="HWPHello" />
         </feature>
       </config-file>
   
       <header-file src="src/ios/HWPHello.h" target-dir="HelloPlugin"/>
       <source-file src="src/ios/HWPHello.m" target-dir="HelloPlugin"/>
     </platform>
   
   </plugin>

2. Then create two blank files, HWPHello.h and HWPHello.m, inside the src...