Does this support social sign-ins?
I don’t see why it wouldn’t. I’m guessing you’d have to use @capacitor/browser or another in-app browser plugin to show the OAuth screens, but that’s probably the same for Cordova right? It’s possible you’d also need to configure deep links for the app to capture OAuth callbacks. Just guessing here; I don’t use social sign-ins in my app, although I do use an in-app browser for other things and I have deep links set up.
Yeah I think there can be an issue where it loads up a clean browser window with no session information, meaning user has to sign into Google/Facebook/etc even if their mobile browser is already signed in. I believe the Meteor-Cordova integration magically handles that, would be great to see that here too if you have plans to make it a Meteor package or merge into Meteor Core.
As far as I’m aware, the only runtime “special sauce” that Meteor adds to the Cordova app is cordova-plugin-meteor-webapp. I intend to replicate all relevant functionality from that plugin, except for the bundled web server (since Capacitor handles that now) and local filesystem access (since it’s no longer trivial given that we’re using Capacitor’s web server, and I think we’re better off leaving that to other plugins). I’ve completed the reimplementation for iOS (pending further testing) and plan to tackle Android soon.
As far as I can tell, cordova-plugin-meteor-webapp doesn’t add any “magic” in terms of sharing session with the system browser, however. I don’t think that’s even possible unless you actually open the system browser, i.e. the OS switches over to Safari or Chrome (or whatever the default browser is) and away from your app. Besides, as far as I know you can’t even open in-app browser windows for the auth in Cordova unless you have one of the plugins; it’s not part of cordova-plugin-meteor-webapp’s API:
declare global {
interface Window {
WebAppLocalServer: {
startupDidComplete(callback?: () => void): void;
checkForUpdates(callback?: () => void): void;
onNewVersionReady(callback: (version: string) => void): void;
switchToPendingVersion(callback?: () => void, errorCallback?: (error: Error) => void): void;
onError(callback: (error: Error) => void): void;
localFileSystemUrl(fileUrl: string): never;
};
}
}
I pushed a bunch of updates to my cordova-plugin-meteor-webapp replacement plugin, capacitor-meteor-webapp.
It’s got Android support now, along with a whole suite of tests for both platforms (and bug fixes to go along with them). I’m feeling a lot more confident in its production-readiness and am going to update my public beta apps (used by a couple hundred folks) to Capacitor very soon.
To be clear: AI agents (Opus 4.6 & Codex 5.3) did all of the coding, though I was heavily involved in the (multiple) planning and review stages. I think the result is better than if I’d done it myself (given that this is out of my wheelhouse as a primarily-web programmer) but I want to be sure to disclose that. I did everything I could to make a robust plugin because the last thing I want is to have thousands of broken app installs on my production app – that would be catastrophic. (Writing that makes me a bit nervous… but that’s why I have a beta version!)
Now to finally integrate RevenueCat! 
Nice stuff!
OMG yes hahaha
How’s the RevenueCat integration going?
Have not gotten to that point yet. Had to prioritize some other things in the backlog. So far so good with Capacitor, though… big public test (probably ~200 people) is coming soon, but internally there have been no issues with the TestFlight version.
Quick update: released a public beta version of my app about ten days ago, powered by Meteor 3.2 (yes I need to update), Capacitor 8, and my capacitor-meteor-webapp plugin, which is now in use by ~100 iOS users. Multiple hot-code pushes since then. Zero issues logged or reported. Feeling good about it. Going to try publishing an Android beta and getting some Android users using it next.
re: RevenueCat @msavin - still haven’t worked on actually integrating the SDK with my codebase, but I got it installed and bundled in the Xcode project. Simple as meteor npm install @revenuecat/purchases-capacitor.