window.plugins.healthkit undefined

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This is my setup:

$ cordova -v 7.1.0 Macbook El Captain 10.11.6 Phonegap 0.4.5

My workflow is to use phonegap to serve the Cordova project on a server, and I test it out on my iPhone using the Phonegap application by pointing to the server IP address on the localnetwork. I have tested several other plugins and most of them works like Camera, ..etc.

I installed the plugin but unable to find it in the namespace, window.plugins.healthkit is undefined. This is part of my index.js out of a vanilla cordova template.

...
// deviceready Event Handler
//
// Bind any cordova events here. Common events are:
// 'pause', 'resume', etc.
onDeviceReady: function() {
    this.receivedEvent('deviceready');
    alert(typeof window.plugins.healthkit);  // <---- undefined

    var callback = function (msg) {
        // wrapping in a timeout because of a possbile native UI element blocking the webview
        setTimeout(function () {
        alert(JSON.stringify(msg))
        }, 0);
    };

    function available() {
        window.plugins.healthkit.available(
        callback,
        callback
        );
    };
},
...

At the same time, I realized this is the same issue using other cordova pedometer related plugins, this is another issue that I created.

Please help.