Cordova Build - ignore files

Question

When compiling a cordova application every single file in my /www folder gets copied to the assets/www folder(android) but I\'d like to customize what

Answer 1

With the help of this article, I found that you can create/edit the platform/android/ant.properties, and add the following line to it:

aapt.ignore.assets=!*.map:!thumbs.db:!.git:.*:*~

With this line, any file or directory that matches one of these patterns will not be included in the .apk file:

• *.map
• thumbs.db
• .git
• .*
• *~

I found that editing the platforms/android/build.xml won't work because it's overwritten each time the build is invoked; also, creating a build.xml file in the root of the project didn't work.

The rules for this property are the following, taken from $ANDROID_HOME/tools/ant/build.xml: