Cordova Download Plugin

Simple plugin allows native downloads from javascript and get notified via a progress callback.

The plugin is known to work from cordova 1.7 to 2.0

• multiple concurrent downloads
• progress callbacks for downloads and unzip operations
• auto detect ZIP files, unzip then delete original zip
• files are extracted in the NSDocumentDirectoryof the application but you can override
• iOS only at the moment

Proudly made by the revolunet team

Example :

window.plugins.Download.start(
    // File to download
    'https://github.com/revolunet/incubator-cordova-js/zipball/master', 
    // success callback
    function() { $(#'progress').html("SUCCESS"); },
    // failure callback
    function() { $(#'progress').html("FAILURE"); },
    // progress callback
    function(infos) { 
        var statusText = window.plugins.Download.status[infos.status];
        $(#'progress').html =  statusText + ' ' + infos.progress;
    }
    // here you can specify an absolute output directory where to place the file
    // eg: '/Documents/mydownloads'
);

There is a full working example at index.html.

Installation :

• meet dependencies
• add FileDownload and FileDownloadPlugin to your iOS project
• add a reference to the plugin in your Cordova.plist, as name=FileDownloadPlugin, value=FileDownloadPlugin

Dependencies :

• ASI http request
• SSZipArchive
• The HTML demo page use Lea Verou Progress polyfill because YES, <progress> is not yet implemented in Safari

Todo :

• Use content-type HTTP header instead of extension to detect ZIPs