Cordova plugins with <framework custom="true"> and Capacitor

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Hello!

I'm trying to add a Cordova plugin (namely cordova-social-vk) to my capacitor 3.x.x app.

The plugin contains the following "framework" tag (under android section) in its plugin.xml:

<framework src="src/android/vksdk_library" custom="true" />

I checked plugin sources - the directory is there indeed.

But android build always fails - here's the gradle error I'm getting:

/path/to/src-capacitor/android/capacitor-cordova-android-plugins/src/main/java/ru/trilan/socialvk/SocialVk.java:29: error: package com.vk.sdk does not exist
import com.vk.sdk.VKAccessToken;

I googled and found more people reporting similar issues:

https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/framework-dependency-in-plugin-migration-cordova-capacitor/181146

#215

But no solutions to try - either they never managed to solve the problem, or decided not to share solutions for some reason.

Anything I can do with the plugin to make it work with Capacitor?

Thanks!

[jcesarmobile]

Looks like a bug in Capacitor, but does that plugin work in Cordova apps?
The plugin has not been updated for almost 6 years, so it's very likely that it doesn't work in Cordova apps neither.

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so it's very likely that it doesn't work in Cordova apps neither.

Indeed.

However, I found a "fixed" version (here) that I confirm is compatible with modern-day cordova, but it just gives me the exact same error.

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OP here. Still haven't found a solution.

Any ideas?