Cordova 2.9, 3.0 no console.log

Question

With a fresh download of Cordova 2.9 and the Cordova CLI, I created Hello World application via the CLI. I also added the iOS platform via the CLI. Looking in the index.js file

Answer 1

The problem is because of the command line utility. There are two ways to create a project with the PhoneGap/Cordova CLI - Use the bash scripts that come with PhoneGap folder you download, and (2) to install the Cordova CLI.

I used the Cordova CLI, which doesn't use any resources you download, it downloads the latest release of PG - in this case 3.0, which isn't available yet on phonegap.com. It's very possible it may not be a stable release, because the console.log didn't work in the iOS app it created.

I tried using the batch script in the 2.9 folder I downloaded, and it created an app with fully functional console.log(ging).

Answer 2

The console functionality is now implemented as a plugin, which you need to manually add to your project:

$ cordova plugin add https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/cordova-plugin-console.git

Answer 3

This turned out to be a 2 hour long problem for me so I thought I would share the love! I fresh installed Cordova 3.0 and then installed the official console log plugin with

cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-console

But I still could not get Safari to show logs by going to

Safari > Develop > IOS simulator > index.html

So I opened up Xcode and checked the system log File > New Log Window > system.log

...system.log is on the left hand side of the popup under the Files section.

There I noticed that there was a log reading

Oct 14 01:12:57 Bens-MacBook-Pro.local ios-sim[37222]: stderrPath:     
/Users/benconant/Dev/FirstCordovaApp/platforms/ios/cordova/console.log

so I ran

tail -F /Users/benconant/Dev/FirstCordovaApp/platforms/ios/cordova/console.log

in a new terminal window and boom ... got my logs!

Still have no idea how to get them from Safari :( Would welcome any hints at how to make that happen. Good luck ... this was/is a ruff one.

Answer 4

try to add Debug Console plugin to your project by running this command:

$ cordova plugin add org.apache.cordova.console