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Removing Cordova

Removing Cordova and Testing the Migrated App

With every plugin replaced, remove what only Cordova 129 used. The migration guide names config.xml, platforms/ and plugins/. Also drop the cordova-android package and the cordova block of package.json, and delete the <script src="cordova.js"> tag:

Removing Cordova from the notes appShell
npm uninstall cordova-android
npm pkg delete cordova
rm -rf config.xml platforms plugins
npx cap sync android
Output
...
[info] Found 3 Capacitor plugins for android:
       @capacitor/device@8.0.3
       @capacitor/dialog@8.0.1
       @capacitor/geolocation@8.2.2
...
[info] Sync finished in 0.202s

The capacitor-cordova-android-plugins module stays, now holding no plugin code, and cap sync still writes a stub cordova.js into the web assets. Both are harmless and are part of every Capacitor 243,123 project. Then test what a user upgrading from the store would see. Install the new build over the old one with adb install -r, not onto a clean emulator, and check that the stored data, permissions, deep links and notifications survived. In the notes app, the note, the device line and the location permission all carried over:

The notes app before and after migration: the Cordova build's dialog, and the Capacitor build with the note intact and a position from @capacitor/geolocation
The notes app before and after migration: the Cordova build's dialog, and the Capacitor build with the note intact and a position from @capacitor/geolocation

Finally, aapt2 dump badging on both APKs should show the same package, no surprise permissions and a higher version code.