I'm writing a simple android app detection using Ionic (fairly new too as well with mobile apps dev using Ionic). Using this plugin App Availaibility I was able to get a list of installed apps, however is there a way or plugin or is it possible to know what was the recent app that was used in the foreground? Like if a com.android.appname was run, it may be able to detect it? Thanks.
No there is not, I'd assume that there won't be a plugin for this either. In order for the device to know what app has ran in the past, it must hold this data somewhere. I doubt google or apple does anything like this.
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you can always try and build a plugin yourself and see if its possible.
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I'm really new to ionic/AngularJS/Cordova app development so I'm facing some issues that someone with quite better comprehension on the subject than me could easily fix.
I successfully installed all the components needed to start developing with the already mentioned frameworks.
After installation, I started playing a little bit with some examples and managed to create a really simple app that just had a side menu.
When I was testing my really simple app using ionic serve command, the app launched in my browser (as it should) and worked they way I was expecting to.
My problem comes when I type the ionic run android command.
The app gets built and everything and after that it gets installed in my Android Virtual Device, which later launches the app with no errors.
But the thing is that the app running in my AVD doesn't look the same as in my browser. It looks as if some styles were missing or something.
I know it might be something really easy to fix that I'm just missing.
Thanks in advance. :)
Ionic framework renders the UI layout based on the platform the app is run to provide close to native look and feel. This is as per the design of the framework. If you want to control the rendering, i.e., to have the same look and feel across all platforms, you can make use of the $ionicConfigProvider service in your app and make appropriate changes. http://ionicframework.com/docs/api/provider/$ionicConfigProvider/
Also to get a feel of how the UI looks in iOS and Android side by side you can use the below command
ionic serve --lab
Read this http://ionicframework.com/docs/cli/test.html for more options on ionic cli
OK I have done a lot of research over the last few days, reading a lot of posts on here. I have build an app that using the accelerometer and geo-location.
Now thanks in part to many different posts on here and other sites I have got most of my app working without any problems.
I now have to get it working as a background app. I am building this for iOS and android, but the main aim is iOS. I know that iOS7 changed a few things but also add support for BackgroundFetch, how do I use that within a app that I will be building with build.phonegap.com?
Now I have found this plugin, de.appplant.cordova.plugin.background-mode but when I added it to the config.xml file, phonegap build says its unsupported?
I know there is a list of areas, What's solution to make task background in iOS same service in Android? , where you can list in your 'plist file' for iOS and state what type of application it is and iOS will run it in the background because its using one of these features.
Now I have read somewhere - not to sure where - that the config.xml is built, when phonegap build runs into the plist file, so somewhere in that file I should be able to state that it is application using this and that, therefore run in the background?
So is there any many of making my app run in the background?
Any help would be most welcome
Thanks
Glenn.
The resources you have found are referring to building apps locally on your machine, not with phonegap build. You will not be able to achieve the functionality you are looking for with PGBuild as they don't allow that level of configuration.
To achieve this you will need to setup a local cordova/phonegap client and build your app from your computer.
Here's the case:
I'm building an app and distributing it for beta-testers through Testflightapp.com.
Testflight provides a useful SDK, from which you can detect the user's interactions in the app.
The problem is, that although I've implemented the SDK as every tutorial/guide/forum-thread says, I'm not recieving any data..
Here's the data from the file running the testflight sdk. I've tried both the com.0x82.testflight-sdk-module from Titanium's own module-site and the NappTestflight-module (https://github.com/viezel/NappTestFlight).
What am I doing wrong?
(I've tried changing the guid of the app to the app-token and running it with normal guid)
Thanks !
I use this module to talk with TestFlight.
Setup was simple, and it is free. You need to check inside your App on TestFLight to get the correct id.
I'm developing a phonegap based app for android and wondering how to run another app or even go to the android marketplace when the wished app is not installed in current device.
Any help would be appreciated.
Yes Dozent, it is possible but you'll probably end up needing to write a plugin to call an Android Intent. Many of the core PhoneGap API's like Camera use Intents.
http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/intents/intents-filters.html
http://wiki.phonegap.com/w/page/36753494/How%20to%20Create%20a%20PhoneGap%20Plugin%20for%20Android
Check out this plugin called WebIntent. To learn more about intents, see here.
I would like to start looking at development for Android applications (nothing huge, just for learning). Before I begin, I would like to find out whether or not development on the Android phone I use daily would be corrupted or changed in some way if I used it as a development device.
I probably won't put anything on the Market, but I would just like to test out how everything "works" with Android development.
Any help that will guide me is great.
Thanks.
It shouldn't cause any problems at all. The only problem I can imagine is that you have to enable installation of applications from unknown sources (i.e. not the marketplace). You just need to be sensible not to go installing applications from dodgy places.
No, not at all! Sorry for the shortness of the answer, but that's it.
The only problem I can think of is writing to internal memory more than usual, but if you install a lot of new apps, the effect will be the same, so it's nothing special. And as alextsc said, if you write something and it doesn't work, just remove it, and that's all.
Not at all. But even better, when you set everything up (Eclipse, the Android SDK and the ADT Eclipse plugin) you'll also get an Android emulator that you can test your development projects on virtually.
Still, it's just fine (and recommended) to do testing on an actual device, but if you're just playing around, you can likely just use the emulator and only deploy to your device if the end result is something you'd like to show off to your friends!
Best of luck!
Hey in addition to the above answers,
You should actually test on your device when you are making an app that uses one of the following :
GPS, or wi-fi to get user location
when you want to use any phone sensor in your app
when you are trying to integrate camera/ camcorder in your app
also you might need to actually test phone call/sms functionality integrated in an app
otherwise the emulator just works fine