I created Simple cordova project using visual studio. I want ask
How to convert, save to apk? I tryed to run relise device, didnt
work, the file don't created. Should I use build.phonegap.com? Its
free?
After adding the android platform successfully you can easily use the cli to build the apk with the following command
cordova build android
you can even run the application in an emulator or device connected to your pc via the command
cordova run android
if you prefer to manually copy the apk to your device and then install from there, you can find the apk under " \platforms\android\ant-build "
You can create the apk making a build using the cordova command line. You have to use this command inside your cordova app dir:
cordova build android
And after that look for you apk inside the android platform folder. Of course first you have to add the platform if you have not already done:
cordova platform add android
I hope this helps you!
Related
How easy is PhoneGap to build and deploy Android applications? The application I'm thinking of is not a beginner level app. How is the level of debugging and error handling and the support it gives?
Thanks in advance.
Deploying an app with Phonegap is quite easy. You can install Phonegap by using,
npm install -g phonegap#latest
and then create an app by,
phonegap create myApp
Refer the docs, PhoneGap Getting Started
When you create the app you will notice there is a directory called "WWW". All you have to do is copy a build of your existing web app to this directory.
All your assets and code in this directory will be used to build apps for the platforms you specify.
You can use Cordova to add the Android platform, which will be used to get an Android build out of your project.
Use,
cordova platform add android
Notice the directory "platforms". Inside it you will find another directory called "android" and this will be your Android project.
To build an Android app simply use,
phonegap build android
When you run the above command Phonegap will build an Android project using your code in WWW directory and place it in the platforms/android directory.
You can then use Android Studio to open the android directory which is an Android project now.
It's as simple as that and quite easy once you get the hang of it.
Then you can do all the regular debugging inside Android Studio using Logcat.
Yes,We have resources for this on net and I searched for that ,But it didn't solve my problem so asking this question here.
I have a working polymer web app and I am able to access this using http://localhost:8080//index.html,My app looks like this
I want to deploy this app in android phone,So I used apache cordova
Below are the steps I followed
Installed cordova using
npm install -g cordova.
create cordova project
cordova create alertsDir com.alerts.net "Alerts" --template=C:/Users/212606402/Learning/Alert client/alert-push-notification-client
cd to alertsDir and add platform
cordova platform add android
build platform
cordova build android
run project
cordova run android
I am not getting any error in above steps
I run this in both android emulator and nexus 5 devise but it showing the same default cordova screen,My app is not shown there,Below is the emulator screen I am seeing
I followed some tutorials and just wondering how it works for them.
tuetorial 1
Can anyone please explain me what I am missing or doing wrong.Thanks in advance.
as far as i know, Cordova only deploy 2 folder platforms folder and www folder but not all in platforms folder will get deployed to your device, usually the cli will merge platform_www and www folder.
so if you want to make a cordova app you need to put all your sourcecode or sourcecode that already bundeled using either polymer-build with gulp or polymer-cli inside www directory.
i had build the ionic project (sample in 'www' folder) and run the sample in browser. but i need to convert the sample/project in to android app, and want to test that sample in my android phone. please provide what are all the software needed to do this and what are all the step by step procedure.
You will need the Android SDK to compile Android code. Set ANDROID_HOME environment variable to the SDK location.
On windows: set ANDROID_HOME=/path/to/sdk
From the command line, run the following command which generates an Android project:
ionic add platform android
Then build an apk file using this command:
ionic build android
Copy the apk to an Android device for testing.
The next step after starting an ionic project and building the app is deployment.
Make sure your device connected to your machine. Make sure android ionic support is enabled via $ionic platform add android. Check that android is supported via $ionic platform list.
Then build your app.
$ionic build android and run it $ionic run android
This should run to the connected device to test. You can also use emulators by adjusting the run syntax.
Im new with phonegap, cordova and android. Im on mac, recently i install all the needs:
Phonegap 3.3.0-0.19.6
Cordova 3.3.1-0.4.1
Got Android SDK and running on eclipse with no problem. Then create a new Android application on eclipse for phonegap successfully, and running on a phone with android.
Then i create another app with cordoba(terminal), put 2 platforms android and ios, i run prepare etc.. and then import the project(android) into eclipse. At this point the app runs ok, so i proceed to install some plugins for testing (Notifications and Device)
https://cordova.apache.org/docs/en/3.0.0/cordova_device_device.md.html#Device
When i run the app with eclipse the examples always return
Uncaught TypeError: Cannot call method 'alert' of undefined
And its the same with device. So looking over the internet i found that if i run $cordova prepare will work, then i run the command, then run the app on eclipse and it work but always when i install a new plugin for testing i have to run cordova prepare, and the problem is that index.html rewrite with example hello world and i loose my code.
Any help over here, im doing ok?, how to install those plugins and make the test and dont have to run prepare all the time. (Please think on eclipse, i dont what to use terminal all the time)
I had the same exact problem and other posts suggestions didn't work for me.
I solved it by switching the steps a bit, despite the official docs and other posts.
If I add ALL the files AND the core plugins BEFORE I add the platforms, then adding the platforms takes these things with it into the new folder structures AND only build once from the command line before I open the project.
If I need to add anything I do it again. Although I can edit the www files without going through the process again, I do not expect the root www to perpetuate the platform www's. I just copy it myself into all the www folders. It shouldn't be this way but I think this is a well documented bug with multiple command line builds, for now and thats my working fix.
The recommended way is to edit html/js/css... in the root www folder of the project, not in the platfotms/xxx folders.
The reason is that if you have multiple platforms, you just need to modify in one place and cordova prepare or cordova build or phonegap build will propagate your code to all the platforms and update plugins.
If you have only android platform and want to be able to change code directly in eclipse for the platforms/android/assets/www folder, I suggest you create a shell script to
copy all the content of projectroot/platforms/android/assets/www to projectroot/www
run cordova prepare android
Then, instead of running cordova prepare android, you'll just have to run your script after you add new plugins.
Edit
I think there may be a better way for your problem.
You should be able to use plugman to install your plugins instead of cordova.
First you need to install plugman cli : npm install -g plugman
then install a plugin using
plugman -d --platform android --project projectname --plugin nameorurlofplugin
http://cordova.apache.org/docs/en/edge/plugin_ref_plugman.md.html
I had these issues too.
One approach I use now is:
Edit the index.html in the platform folders which is platform/iOS/appname/www and so. Then add plugins using the normal terminal way using cordova plugin add but always run the project using Xcode for iOS and eclipse and not from the terminal because then you will lose your code.
From my experience when you run using .xcodeproj or say android project the www on the inside is used and if you use cordova run ios from terminal the www on the outside will overwrite the www in the platform folders.
If you get xcode errors saying can't find so and so plugin files just move them to the path the error says xcode expects them to be in.
I have created the project with cordova CLI but i do not know where i need to change and how to run the cordova android project with eclipse for each platform. Thanks for helping
Before run the android project inside your Cordova Project you should know these things.
If you are making any changes in the Cordova Project then first you need to prepare the cordova. use the command cordova prepare
Then it changed in your config.xml (for android) automatic as you added or any changes you made. Do not make any change in your android project which exist inside your Cordova project. You can only make change inside the www folder of your Cordova project. And after made changed you need to make cordova prepare every time.
After prepare the cordova you can run the android project on device or emulator. For this you make sure you have made the path of android sdk for platforms-tools and tools in your environment system. If you not configure this path and add this two path in system environment .
Now run the android project on device use command cordova run android and run on emulator use this command cordova emulate android.
And if want to run on eclipse then you should import this android project of your workspace in eclipse. But if you again made changes in your cordova project then need to delete and again import the android project this switching happened every time so better to run through CLI.
I hope you got all things
Sunil's answer is good. I would like to add logging using Android Debug Bridge(adb).You may want to run:
adb logcat on a seperate shell window for logs after running cordova run android you need when you run into errors.This will produce huge logs, so I would recommend using:
adb logcat|grep Cordova