Config.xml API

The config.xml file is a global configuration file that manages various aspects of a Cordova application's behavior. It is written in XML format and follows the structure outlined in the W3C's Packaged Web Apps (Widgets) specification. Additionally, it is extended to include core Cordova API features, plugins, and platform-specific settings.

If you are using the Cordova CLI to create your project (as explained in The Command-Line Interface), you can locate the config.xml file in the top-level directory of your project.

./hellocordova
└── config.xml

When using the CLI to build a project, versions of this file are passively copied into various platforms/ subdirectories. For example:

./hellocordova
└── platforms
    ├── android
    │   └── app
    │       └── src
    │           └── main
    │               └── res
    │                   └── xml
    │                       └── config.xml
    └── ios
        └── HelloCordova
            └── config.xml

Some platforms offer integrated development environments (IDEs) like Xcode for iOS and Android Studio for Android, which allow you to build and test your application. If you choose to use these IDEs for building and testing your project, it is recommended to run the cordova prepare CLI command whenever you make changes to the Cordova application's config.xml. This ensures that the updated configurations are copied into the respective platforms/ subdirectories.

In addition to the configuration options described below, you have the ability to customize the core set of images for your application on each target platform. For more information, please refer to the topic on Customizing Icons.

Sample config.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<widget xmlns="http://www.w3.org/ns/widgets"
    xmlns:cdv="http://cordova.apache.org/ns/1.0"
    id="io.cordova.hellocordova"
    version="1.0.0">
    <name>HelloCordova</name>
    <description>Sample Apache Cordova App</description>
    <author email="dev@cordova.apache.org" href="https://cordova.apache.org">
        Apache Cordova Team
    </author>

    <content src="index.html" />

    <!-- Security Related Settings -->
    <access origin="https://cordova.apache.org" />
    <allow-intent href="http://*/*" />
    <allow-intent href="https://*/*" />

    <!-- Platform Configs & Platform Overriding Configs -->
    <platform name="android"></platform>
    <platform name="ios"></platform>
</widget>

widget

Root element of the config.xml document.

Attributes Description
id
String
Required
Specifies the app's identifier. The id should be in a reverse-DNS format however, only alphanumeric and dot characters are allowed. e.g: com.example.myapp
version
String
Required
Full version number expressed in major/minor/patch notation.
android-versionCode
String
Alternative version for Android. Sets the version code for the application. See the Android guide for information on how this attribute may be modified.
ios-CFBundleVersion
String
Alternative version for iOS. For further details, see Apple Developer - CFBundleVersion.
android-packageName
String
This preference overrides the id attribute with an alternative package name specifically for Android.
ios-CFBundleIdentifier
String
This preference overrides the id attribute with an alternative bundle ID specifically for iOS.
defaultlocale
String
Specify the default language of the app using an IANA language code. This preference key explicitly sets the value for CFBundleDevelopmentRegion. For example, you can use values like en or en_US.
android-activityName
String
Set the activity name for your app in AndroidManifest.xml. Note that this is only set once after the Android platform is first added.
xmlns
String
Required
Namespace for the config.xml document.
xmlns:cdv
String
Required
Namespace prefix.

Examples:

<!-- Android -->
<widget id="io.cordova.hellocordova" version="0.0.1" android-versionCode="13" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/ns/widgets" xmlns:cdv="http://cordova.apache.org/ns/1.0">
</widget>

<!-- iOS -->
<widget id="io.cordova.hellocordova" version="0.0.1" ios-CFBundleVersion="0.1.3" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/ns/widgets" xmlns:cdv="http://cordova.apache.org/ns/1.0">
</widget>

name

Specifies the app's formal name, as it appears on the device's home screen and within app-store interfaces.

Examples:

<widget ...>
   <name>HelloCordova</name>
</widget>

short name

Specifies an optional display name for the app. Sometimes the app name should be displayed differently on device's home screen than on informational and app-store interfaces due to limited space.

Examples:

<widget ...>
   <name short="HiCdv">HelloCordova</name>
</widget>

description

Specifies metadata that may appear within app-store listings.

Examples:

<widget ...>
   <description>A sample Apache Cordova application</description>
</widget>

author

Specifies contact information that may appear within app-store listings.

Attributes Description
email
String
Required
Email of the author.
href
String
Required
Website of the author.

Examples:

<widget ...>
   <author email="dev@cordova.apache.org" href="https://cordova.io"></author>
</widget>

content

Defines the app's starting page in the top-level web assets directory. The default value is index.html, which customarily appears in a project's top-level www directory.

Attributes Description
src
String
Required
Defines the app's starting page in the top-level web assets directory. The default value is index.html, which customarily appears in a project's top-level www directory.

Examples:

<widget ...>
   <content src="startPage.html"></content>
</widget>

access

Defines the external domains that the app is allowed to communicate with. When the access origin is set to "*", the app can access any server, but this can potentially create a security risk. It is recommended to explicitly specify the permitted URLs to ensure a secure configuration. For detailed instructions, please refer to the Allow List Guide.

Attributes Description
origin
String
Required
Defines the external domain URL or URL pattern that the app is allowed to communicate with.

Examples:

<widget ...>
   <access origin="*"></access>
</widget>

<widget ...>
   <access origin="http://google.com"></access>
</widget>

allow-navigation

Controls which URLs the WebView can be navigated to. Applies to top-level navigations only. See the Allow List Guide for details.

Attributes Description
href
String
Required
Defines the external domain or domain pattern that the WebView is allowed to navigate to.

Examples:

<!-- Allow links to example.com -->
<allow-navigation href="http://example.com/*" />

<!-- Wildcards are allowed for the protocol, as a prefix to the host, or as a suffix to the path -->
<allow-navigation href="*://*.example.com/*" />

allow-intent

Controls which URLs the app is allowed to ask the system to open. By default, no external URLs are allowed. See the Allow List Guide for details.

Attributes Description
href
String
Required
Defines the URL or URL pattern that the app is allowed to ask the system to open.

Examples:

<allow-intent href="http://*/*" />
<allow-intent href="https://*/*" />
<allow-intent href="tel:*" />
<allow-intent href="sms:*" />

edit-config

See <config-file> docs for plugin.xml.

config-file

See <config-file> docs for plugin.xml.

engine

Specifies details about what platform to restore during a prepare.

Attributes Description
name
String
Required
Name of the platform to be restored
spec
String
Required
Details about the platform to be restored. This could be a major.minor.patch version number, a directory containing the platform or a url pointing to a git repository. This information will be used to retrieve the platform code to restore from NPM, a local directory or a git repository. See Platform Spec for further details.

Examples:

<engine name="android" spec="https://github.com/apache/cordova-android.git#5.1.1" />
<engine name="ios" spec="^4.0.0" />

plugin

Specifies details about what plugin to restore during a prepare. This element is automatically added to a project's config.xml when a plugin is added using the --save flag. See the CLI reference for more information on adding plugins.

Note: As of Cordova 9.x, this tag is obsolete. Learn More

Attributes Description
name
String
Required
Name of the plugin to be restored
spec
String
Required
Details about the plugin to be restored. This could be a major.minor.patch version number, a directory containing the plugin or a url pointing to a git repository. This information will be used to retrieve the plugin code to restore from NPM, a local directory or a git repository. See Plugin Spec for further details.

Examples:

<plugin name="cordova-plugin-device" spec="^1.1.0" />
<plugin name="cordova-plugin-device" spec="https://github.com/apache/cordova-plugin-device.git#1.0.0" />

variable

Persists the value of a CLI variable to be used when restoring a plugin during a prepare. This element is added to config.xml when a plugin that uses CLI variables is added using the --save flag. See the CLI reference for more information on adding plugins.

Note that this value is only used when the plugin is restored to the project during a prepare, changing it will not change the value used by the plugin in the current project. In order for changes to this value to take effect, remove the plugin from the project and restore it by running cordova prepare. See the preference element of plugin.xml for more details on CLI variables.

Attributes Description
name
String
Required
Name of the CLI variable. Can only contain capital letters, digits, and underscores.
value
String
Required
Value of the CLI variable to be used when restoring the parent plugin during a prepare.

Examples:

<plugin name="cordova-plugin-device" spec="^1.1.0">
    <variable name="MY_VARIABLE" value="my_variable_value" />
</plugin>

preference

Sets various options as pairs of name/value attributes. Each preference's name is case-insensitive. Many preferences are unique to specific platforms, and will be indicated as such.

Attributes Description
AllowInlineMediaPlayback
Boolean
Default: false
Set to true to allow HTML5 media playback to appear inline within the screen layout, using browser-supplied controls rather than native controls. For this to work, add the playsinline attribute to any <video> elements. NOTE: Prior to iOS 10, <video> elements need to use the webkit-playsinline attribute name instead.
AllowNewWindows
Boolean
Default: false
Set to true to allow JavaScript window.open and HTML target="_blank" links to open a new view overlaying the web view.
AndroidLaunchMode
String
Default: singleTop
Allowed values: standard, singleTop, singleTask, singleInstance
Sets the Activity android:launchMode attribute. This changes what happens when the app is launched from app icon or intent and is already running.
AndroidInsecureFileModeEnabled
Boolean
Default: false
If set to true loading file:/// URLs is allowed. Note: Enabling this setting allows malicious scripts loaded in a file:/// context to launch cross-site scripting attacks, either accessing arbitrary local files including WebView cookies, app private data or even credentials used on arbitrary web sites.
android-maxSdkVersion
Number
Default: Not Specified
Sets the maxSdkVersion attribute of the <uses-sdk> tag in the project's AndroidManifest.xml (see here).
android-minSdkVersion
Number
Default: Dependent on cordova-android Version
Sets the minSdkVersion attribute of the <uses-sdk> tag in the project's AndroidManifest.xml (see here).
android-targetSdkVersion
Number
Default: Dependent on cordova-android Version
Sets the targetSdkVersion attribute of the <uses-sdk> tag in the project's AndroidManifest.xml (see here).
android-compileSdkVersion
Number
Default: Dependent on cordova-android Version
Sets the compileSdkVersion attribute.
android-buildToolsVersion
Semver
Default: Dependent on cordova-android Version
Expects a full version string eg. "32.0.0". Changing this may also requires changing the PATH environment variable to find the proper build tools.

This preference is primarily for cordova development, for testing upcoming versions of the Android SDK. Changing this has a high risk of breaking builds as newer build tools frequently introduce breaking changes.
GradleVersion
String
Default: Dependent on cordova-android Version
Sets the gradle wrapper version to use.

This preference is primarily for cordova development, for testing upcoming versions of the Android SDK. Changing this has a high risk of breaking builds as newer build tools frequently introduce breaking changes.
AndroidGradlePluginVersion
Semver
Default: Dependent on cordova-android Version
Sets the Android Gradle Plugin version to use.

This preference is primarily for cordova development, for testing upcoming versions of the Android SDK. Changing this has a high risk of breaking builds as newer build tools frequently introduce breaking changes.
AndroidXAppCompatVersion
Semver
Default: Dependent on cordova-android Version
Overrides Android App Compat library version.
AndroidXWebKitVersion
Semver
Default: Dependent on cordova-android Version
Overrides Android WebKit library version.
AndroidGradlePluginGoogleServicesVersion
Semver
Default: Dependent on cordova-android Version
Overrides the Google Services library version.
AndroidGradlePluginGoogleServicesEnabled
Boolean
Default: false
Enables Google Services. The google-services.json file will be required.
GradlePluginKotlinEnabled
Boolean
Default: false
Enables Kotlin plugin for Kotline support.
AppendUserAgent
String
If set, the value will append to the end of old UserAgent of webview. When using with OverrideUserAgent, this value will be ignored.
BackgroundColor
String
Sets the app's background color. Supports a four-byte hex value, with the first byte representing the alpha channel, and standard RGB values for the following three bytes.
Note: transparent value will set the application tile background to the accent color on Windows.
CordovaWebViewEngine
String
Default: CDVWebViewEngine
This sets the WebView engine plugin to be used to render the host app. The plugin must conform to the CDVWebViewEngineProtocol protocol. The 'value' here should match the 'feature' name of the WebView engine plugin that is installed. This preference usually would be set by the WebView engine plugin that is installed, automatically.
DefaultVolumeStream
String
Default: default
Added in cordova-android 3.7.0, This preference sets which volume the hardware volume buttons link to. By default this is "call" for phones and "media" for tablets. Set this to "media" to have your app's volume buttons always change the media volume. Note that when using Cordova's media plugin, the volume buttons will dynamically change to controlling the media volume when any Media objects are active.
DisallowOverscroll
Boolean
Default: false
Set to true if you don't want the interface to display any feedback when users scroll past the beginning or end of content. On iOS, overscroll gestures cause content to bounce back to its original position. on Android, they produce a more subtle glowing effect along the top or bottom edge of the content.
EnableViewportScale
Boolean
Default: false
Set to true to allow a viewport meta tag to either disable or restrict the range of user scaling, which is enabled by default. Place a viewport such as the following in the HTML to disable scaling and fit content flexibly within the rendering WebView:
<meta name='viewport' content='width=device-width, initial-scale=1, user-scalable=no' />
ErrorUrl
Url
Default: null
When this preference is set, the application will display the specified local page upon encountering an error. Additionally, if this preference is set, the Android system will suppress the default dialog titled "Application Error".
FullScreen
Boolean
Default: false
Allows you to hide the status bar at the top of the screen.
Note: Recommended platform-agnostic way to achieve this is to use the StatusBar plugin.
GapBetweenPages
Float
Default: 0
The size of the gap, in points, between pages.
GradlePluginGoogleServicesEnabled
Boolean
Default: false
Set to true to enable the Google Services Gradle plugin.
GradlePluginGoogleServicesEnabled
Semver
Default: 4.2.0
Set version of Google Services Gradle plugin to be used.
GradlePluginKotlinEnabled
Boolean
Default: false
Set to true to allow Kotlin files to be built.
GradlePluginKotlinCodeStyle
String
Default: official
Allowed values: official, obsolete
Sets how the Kotlin code is formatting for readability.
GradlePluginKotlinVersion
Semver
Default: 1.3.50
Set the version of the Kotlin Gradle plugin to be used.
InAppBrowserStorageEnabled
Boolean
Default: true
Controls whether pages opened within an InAppBrowser can access the same localStorage and WebSQL storage as pages opened with the default browser.
InspectableWebview
Boolean
Default: depends on Debug/Release build
On iOS 16.4 or later, enables or disables the webview inspector. Defaults to true on debug builds and false on release builds. This preference is ignored on iOS 16.3 and earlier; the inspector is always enabled on debug builds and always disabled on release builds.
KeepRunning
Boolean
Default: true
Determines whether the application stays running in the background even after a pause event fires. Setting this to false does not kill the app after a pause event, but simply halts execution of code within the cordova webview while the app is in the background.
KeyboardDisplayRequiresUserAction
Boolean
Default: true
Set to false to allow the keyboard to appear when calling focus() on form inputs.
LoadUrlTimeoutValue
Number
Default: 20000, 20 seconds
When loading a page, the amount of time in miliseconds to wait before throwing a timeout error.
LoadingDialog
String
Default: null
If set, displays a dialog with the specified title and message, and a spinner, when loading the first page of an application. The title and message are separated by a comma in this value string, and that comma is removed before the dialog is displayed.
LogLevel
String
Default: DEBUG
Allowed values: ERROR, WARN, INFO, DEBUG, VERBOSE
Sets the minimum log level through which log messages from your application will be filtered.
MediaPlaybackAllowsAirPlay
Boolean
Default: true
Set to false to prevent Air Play from being used in this view. Available in default UIWebView and WKWebView.
MediaPlaybackRequiresUserAction
Boolean
Default: false
Set to true to prevent HTML5 videos or audios from playing automatically with the autoplay attribute or via JavaScript.
Orientation
String
Default: default
Allowed values: default, landscape, portrait
Allows you to lock orientation and prevent the interface from rotating in response to changes in orientation.
NOTE: The default value means Cordova will strip the orientation preference entry from the platform's manifest/configuration file allowing the platform to fallback to its default behavior. For iOS, to specify both portrait & landscape mode you would use the platform specific value 'all'.
OverrideUserAgent
String
If set, the value will replace the old UserAgent of webview. It is helpful to identify the request from app/browser when requesting remote pages. Use with caution, this may cause compatibility issues with web servers. For most cases, use AppendUserAgent instead.
PageLength
Float
Default: 0
The size of each page, in points, in the direction that the pages flow. When PaginationMode is right to left or left to right, this property represents the width of each page. When PaginationMode is topToBottom or bottomToTop, this property represents the height of each page. The default value is 0, which means the layout uses the size of the viewport to determine the dimensions of the page.
PaginationBreakingMode
String
Default: page
Allowed values: page, column
Valid values are page and column.The manner in which column- or page-breaking occurs. This property determines whether certain CSS properties regarding column- and page-breaking are honored or ignored. When this property is set to column, the content respects the CSS properties related to column-breaking in place of page-breaking.
PaginationMode
String
Default: unpaginated
Allowed values: unpaginated, leftToRight, topToBottom, bottomToTop, rightToLeft
This property determines whether content in the web view is broken up into pages that fill the view one screen at a time,or shown as one long scrolling view. If set to a paginated form, this property toggles a paginated layout on the content, causing the web view to use the values of PageLength and GapBetweenPages to relayout its content.
PreferredContentMode
String
Default: auto
Sets the content mode (user agent) for the WebView and InAppBrowsers WebView on iPads. Valid values are: mobile and desktop.
InAppBrowserStatusBarStyle
String
Default: default
Set text color style of the StatusBar for InAppBrowser for iOS. Valid values are: lightcontent and default.
SetFullscreen
Boolean
Default: false
Same as the Fullscreen parameter in the global configuration of this xml file. This Android-specific element is deprecated in favor of the global Fullscreen element, and will be removed in a future version.
ShowTitle
Boolean
Default: false
Show the title at the top of the screen.
Suppresses3DTouchGesture
Boolean
Default: false
Set to true to avoid 3D Touch capable iOS devices rendering a magnifying glass widget when the user applies force while longpressing the webview. Test your app thoroughly since this disables onclick handlers, but plays nice with ontouchend. If this setting is true, SuppressesLongPressGesture will effectively be true as well.
SuppressesIncrementalRendering
Boolean
Default: false
Set to true to wait until all content has been received before it renders to the screen.
SuppressesLongPressGesture
Boolean
Default: false
Set to true to avoid iOS9+ rendering a magnifying glass widget when the user longpresses the webview. Test your app thoroughly since this may interfere with text selection capabilities.
SwiftVersion
String
Default: (empty)
Set to specify the Swift Version.
TopActivityIndicator
String
Default: gray
Allowed values: whiteLarge, white, gray.

Controls the appearance of the small spinning icon in the status bar that indicates significant processor activity.
UIWebViewDecelerationSpeed
String
Default: normal
Allowed values: normal, fast
This property controls the deceleration speed of momentum scrolling. normal is the default speed for most native apps, and fast is the default for Mobile Safari.
deployment-target
String
This sets the IPHONEOS_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET in the build, which ultimately translates to the MinimumOSVersion in the ipa. For more details please refer to Apple's documentation on Deployment Target Settings
target-device
String
Default: universal
Allowed values: handset, tablet, universal
This property maps directly to TARGETED_DEVICE_FAMILY in the xcode project. Note that if you target universal (which is the default) you will need to supply screen shots for both iPhone and iPad or your app may be rejected.
scheme
String
Default:
- Android: https
- iOS: not defined, but falls back to app if the value is invalid.

Allowed values:
- Android: http or https
- iOS: Any non-reserved schemes. (Example Reserved Schemes)

This property contains the scheme which your app content is served from.
hostname
String
Default: localhost

This property contains the hostname which the app content is served from.

If the preference scheme is not defined for iOS, the hostname value will be ignored.

Examples:

<preference name="DisallowOverscroll" value="true"/>
<preference name="Fullscreen" value="true" />
<preference name="BackgroundColor" value="0xff0000ff"/>
<preference name="HideKeyboardFormAccessoryBar" value="true"/>
<preference name="Orientation" value="landscape" />

<!-- iOS only preferences -->
<preference name="EnableViewportScale" value="true"/>
<preference name="MediaPlaybackAllowsAirPlay" value="false"/>
<preference name="MediaPlaybackRequiresUserAction" value="true"/>
<preference name="AllowInlineMediaPlayback" value="true"/>
<preference name="TopActivityIndicator" value="white"/>
<preference name="SuppressesIncrementalRendering" value="true"/>
<preference name="GapBetweenPages" value="0"/>
<preference name="PageLength" value="0"/>
<preference name="PaginationBreakingMode" value="page"/>
<preference name="PaginationMode" value="unpaginated"/>
<preference name="UIWebViewDecelerationSpeed" value="fast" />
<preference name="ErrorUrl" value="myErrorPage.html"/>
<preference name="OverrideUserAgent" value="Mozilla/5.0 My Browser" />
<preference name="AppendUserAgent" value="My Browser" />
<preference name="target-device" value="universal" />
<preference name="deployment-target" value="7.0" />
<preference name="CordovaWebViewEngine" value="CDVWebViewEngine" />
<preference name="CordovaDefaultWebViewEngine" value="CDVWebViewEngine" />
<preference name="SuppressesLongPressGesture" value="true" />
<preference name="Suppresses3DTouchGesture" value="true" />

<!-- Android only preferences -->
<preference name="KeepRunning" value="false"/>
<preference name="LoadUrlTimeoutValue" value="10000"/>
<preference name="InAppBrowserStorageEnabled" value="true"/>
<preference name="LoadingDialog" value="My Title,My Message"/>
<preference name="ErrorUrl" value="myErrorPage.html"/>
<preference name="ShowTitle" value="true"/>
<preference name="LogLevel" value="VERBOSE"/>
<preference name="AndroidLaunchMode" value="singleTop"/>
<preference name="AndroidInsecureFileModeEnabled" value="true" />
<preference name="DefaultVolumeStream" value="call" />
<preference name="OverrideUserAgent" value="Mozilla/5.0 My Browser" />
<preference name="AppendUserAgent" value="My Browser" />
<preference name="GradlePluginGoogleServicesEnabled" value="true" />
<preference name="GradlePluginGoogleServicesVersion" value="4.2.0" />
<preference name="GradlePluginKotlinEnabled" value="true" />
<preference name="GradlePluginKotlinCodeStyle" value="official" />
<preference name="GradlePluginKotlinVersion" value="1.3.50" />

feature

If you use the CLI to build applications, you use the plugin command to enable device APIs. This does not modify the top-level config.xml file, so the element does not apply to your workflow. If you work directly in an SDK and using the platform-specific config.xml file as source, you use the tag to enable device-level APIs and external plugins. They often appear with custom values in platform-specific config.xml files. See the API Reference for details on how to specify each feature. See the [Plugin Development Guide](../guide/hybrid/plugins/index.html) for more information on plugins. NOTE: Most of the time, you do NOT want to set this directly.

Attributes Description
name
String
Required
The name of the plugin to enable.

param

Used to specify certain plugin parameters such as: what package to retrieve the plugin code from, and whether the plugin code is to be initialized during the Webview's initialization.

Attributes Description
name
String
Required
Allowed values: android-package, ios-package, onload.
'ios-package' and 'android-package' are used to specify the name of the package (as specified by the 'value' attribute) to be used to initialize the plugin code, while 'onload' is used to specify whether the corresponding plugin (as specified in the 'value' attribute) is to be instantiated when the controller is initialized.
value
String/boolean
Required
Specifies the name of the package to be used to initialize the plugin code (when the 'name' attribute is android-package or ios-package), specifies the name of the plugin to be loaded during controller initialization (when 'name' attribute is set to 'onload').

Examples:

<!-- Here is how to specify the Device API for Android projects -->
<feature name="Device">
   <param name="android-package" value="org.apache.cordova.device.Device" />
</feature>

<!-- Here's how the element appears for iOS projects -->
<feature name="Device">
   <param name="ios-package" value="CDVDevice" />
   <param name="onload" value="true" />
</feature>

platform

When using the CLI to build applications, it is sometimes necessary to specify preferences or other elements specific to a particular platform. Use the element to specify configuration that should only appear in a single platform-specific config.xml file.

Attributes Description
name
String
Required
The platform whose preferences are being defined.

Examples:

<platform name="android">
   <preference name="Fullscreen" value="true" />
</platform>

hook

Represents your custom script which will be called by Cordova when certain action occurs (for example, after plugin is added or platform prepare logic is invoked). This is useful when you need to extend default Cordova functionality. See Hooks Guide for more information.

Attributes Description
type
String
Required
Specifies the action during which the custom script is to be called.
src
String
Required
Specifies the location of the script to be called when a specific action occurs.

Examples:

<hook type="after_plugin_install" src="scripts/afterPluginInstall.js" />

resource-file

This tag installs resource files into your platform, and is similar to the same tag in plugin.xml. This tag is currently only supported on cordova-ios@4.4.0 or greater and cordova-android@6.2.1 or greater.

Attributes Description
src
String
Required
Location of the file relative to config.xml.
target
String
Path to where the file will be copied in your directory.

Examples:

For Android:

<resource-file src="FooPluginStrings.xml" target="res/values/FooPluginStrings.xml" />