Remote loading app causes window.plugins is undefined

In index.html, I include

,

but I get window.plugins undefined (e.g. in app.js) if I load my app remotely, in config.xml, like this:

Any ideas on how to fix this?

I’ve tried waiting on a timer. window.plugins remains undefined.

This happens at least on Android (all versions I’ve tried included 4.2/4.3/4.4)

Cordova 4.0.0 Ionic 1.2.8

Ever figured this out? Can you give a crash course in what to do?

no, but as a work-around you might manually bootstrap angularjs to later include whatever files you need.