fs-mobile

Mobile App

getting started

npm install
bower update 
grunt serve

emulate it

• You need to install the Android SDK Manager. This link explains how to do it best in Ubuntu.

• After this is done you need to create an AVD. This page explains quite well how to accomplish this. An AVD demands libs for a specific api version. One of the sub entries includes the name ABI which also needs to be installed.

• You just have to run ionic platform add android, ionic build android, ionic emulate android, once every thing is installed (which takes quite long). I think in our case we should replace ionic with grunt which runs some additional tasks.

• You can define a specific AVD with --target

• https://developer.android.com/tools/devices/managing-avds-cmdline.html

• easiest way to test the app on your mobile phone

• pluck in your mobile phone to your computer

• run ionic run android or grunt run android

• publishing the app: http://ionicframework.com/docs/guide/publishing.html

• a 'released' apk must be signed even though it is only used for testing purposes! (http://developer.android.com/tools/publishing/app-signing.html)

jsonizer

run grunt jsonizer:defaults to fetch data for offline usage from api

release it

The following steps will create a realeasable apk

First ensure that cordova-plugin-whitelist was added to te application

cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-whitelist 
cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-splashscreen
cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-keyboard

grunt

cordova plugin rm org.apache.cordova.console

cordova build --release android

jarsigner -verbose -sigalg SHA1withRSA -digestalg SHA1 -keystore <your-keystore>.keystore /home/johannes/Work/js/fs-mobile/platforms/android/build/outputs/apk/android-release-unsigned.apk <key_alias>

zipalign -v 4 /home/johannes/Work/js/fs-mobile/platforms/android/build/outputs/apk/android-release-unsigned.apk FreakstockApp.apk

iOS Quirks

iOS has a mechanism called App Transport Security. It is enabled by default. App Transport Security blocks cleartext HTTP (http://) resource loads since it is defined as insecure. In this project resources need to be loaded as cleartext HTTP. To disable this mechanism the following code needs to be added to Freakstock-Info.plist

<key>NSAppTransportSecurity</key>
<dict>
	<key>NSAllowsArbitraryLoads</key>
	<true/>
</dict>