Ability to override TargetPlatformVersion via config.xml

[MarkMaldaba]

Ability to override TargetPlatformVersion via config.xml

[MarkMaldaba]

Thanks for the ping. It's on my list to test this, but haven't got to it yet.

[janpio]

Sounds valid.

If you want and can investigate this yourself, searching the codebase for either TargetPlatformVersion to see if something might already exist or windows-target-version (and the others) to understand how the existing preferences work would be my first steps.

We would sure appreciate any support here, otherwise this issue will probably just sit here. Thanks!

[janpio]

I spent some time looking through code related to that, and I think you might be looking for uap-target-min-version and windows-target-version to influence these two values.

[janpio]

Ok, had some time to spend on investigating this:

The CordovaApp.Windows10.jsproj template file has a hard-coded TargetPlatformVersion, which currently seems to be set to 10.0.10240.0

This value is not hardcoded, but gets filled by the maximum SDK installed on your machine when cordova prepare is run (which cordova build and cordova run do in the background):

cordova-windows/template/cordova/lib/prepare.js

Line 497 in c52b81c

targetUAPVersion: baselineVersions[baselineVersions.length - 1] /* The highest available SDK on the system */

This means that your machine probably only had 10.0.10240.0 or no Windows SDK at all, as 10.0.10240.0 is also the default, installed.

For me the value for example is set to <TargetPlatformVersion>10.0.18362.0</TargetPlatformVersion> when running cordova platform add windows.

So installing the 10.0.15063.0 SDK should automatically replace this value on next prepare.

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If you also want to influence TargetPlatformMinVersion in .jsproj, then you can use <preference name="uap-target-min-version" value="10.0.15063.0" /> in config.xml.

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And related, you can also realize this diff, but in \platforms\windows\package.windows10.appxmanifest:

-        <TargetDeviceFamily MaxVersionTested="10.0.10240.0" MinVersion="10.0.10240.0" Name="Windows.Universal" />
+        <TargetDeviceFamily MaxVersionTested="10.0.15063.0" MinVersion="10.0.15063.0" Name="Windows.Universal" />

by setting this in config.xml:

        <preference name="Windows.Universal-MinVersion" value="10.0.15063.0" />
        <preference name="Windows.Universal-MaxVersionTested" value="10.0.15063.0" />

Although I am not totally sure what this achieves to be honest.

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Please let me know if this helped to fix the problem for your @MarkMaldaba.

[janpio]

Ping @MarkMaldaba

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