I have developed android app using phonegap. Now I want to develop same app for windows phone.
I have downloaded windows sdk in my windows 7 and did the require setup to create cordova app. After that I created sample app. To run my android asset code , just copying its files into www folder is enough...?
Or
What more I need to do for getting this to be worked ...?
Guide me on this to proceed further.
Best thing to do is to try it and see what happens!
But yes, you just need to copy the contents of the www folder of the Android app to the www folder of a new Windows Phone PhoneGap project.
You might find you might have to make minor modifications to things like CSS because of the differences in how the mobile browsers render the web pages (since the Android app will run on a webkit browser frame whilst the Windows app will run on an Internet Explorer browser frame).
You might need to set the 'Build Action' property for any image resources you copy across to the Windows Phone using Visual Studio to get the images to render.
Yes copy the files but be careful not to overwrite existing files. The Cordova.js file is platform specific, as are other .js files that are created in the new project.
You also need to 'include in project' in Visual Studio otherwise the files copied to www are ignored. Do this in the solution browser on the right pane in VS.
Remember the browser is IE as compared with WebKit in Android so some CSS, HTML and Javascript may need to be changed. If you have used a propagation stop to prevent scrolling in WebKit, this may not work in IE and the touch event model is completely different. This MS guide might help:
http://blogs.windows.com/windows_phone/b/wpdev/archive/2012/11/15/adapting-your-webkit-optimized-site-for-internet-explorer-10.aspx
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I have an Android App I downloaded and installed, I have also extracted the APK,
Is there some way from the apk file to tell what programming language was used to write the program?
Are there any tools are available to help with this?
What languages can be determined and which ones cannot?
Normally most android app is build using the following texhnologies:---
React Native app
Cordova app
Native java/kotlin app
To determine the technology, you need to decompile the app first using this link
Then look for "assets" folder. Normally, asset folder should be present at the very top of application hierarchy.
Then you can determine the app technology by the following prediction:--
If asset folder is present and there have any file with the extension ".bundle"(mainly the file name is "index.android.bundle") then the app is build using React Native.
If the assets folder contain a folder name "www" and "assets/www" contain the following file/folder structure then it is a cordova app.
If neighter 1 or 2 is true then the app may be written using native code, i.e using java/kotlin
You can do a reverse engineering : (https://www.apkdecompilers.com/ or http://www.javadecompilers.com/apk) decompile the apk and see the code and its programming language.
Not an accurate way to get the specific technology, but through adb, you could check the activity name of an app.
Usually when you open different activities or pages, with native technology the ActivityName will be different like below (Playstore app):
whereas in hybrid apps such as Ionic e.g, it is usually bundled up into one, hence the only activity will be MainActivity... like the Hamilton app made with flutter:
I am facing a serious issue here. I built an android and iOS application. Now after I developed it completely and it is running seamlessly, I want it to be multilingual(both android and iOS). Is there any simplest method which I can use now to make both my android and iOS apps multilingual now. The .apk and .ipa files have already been prepared and the project is complete. Please help!!!!
You cannot modify your .apk and .ipa files to be multilingual. I mean, theoretically it's possible but it would be ludicrously difficult. If you are stuck with the .apk and .ipa files you have, then your task is extremely difficult, sorry.
You can modify the android and iOS projects (I am assuming they are separate projects) to provide multiple language versions of the resource files where your user text and images are stored, assuming that you correctly stored all text and images which get displayed to the user in resource files/folders.
For Android, see http://developer.android.com/training/basics/supporting-devices/languages.html
For IOS, see http://www.raywenderlich.com/64401/internationalization-tutorial-for-ios-2014.
I am basically a Web Developer. I used the Phonegap tool to build Android iOS and RIM apps. I want to include the Corodova.jar file and Phonegap.js file inside Android Kernel(inside Android OS).So Every time i dont want to add these two files inside my android APP.I want to have these files to be stored in android kernel and be execute when any phonegap project runs so as the increase speed of excecution similar to the native app
Existing Phone Gap Model :
Inside Every app contains the corodova.jar files and phone gap .js file occur
And the app is executed
My idea - by "Maxymus Boopathy"(type it in google and search , You will find me
Inside Android OS/ kernel
Keeping /storing Corodova.jar and JS file and all
Files except the html and CSS
So that every time during execution the app will take the
Corodova.jar and js files from android kernel and use it for all phonegap apps
Benefits : Low file Size , high performance increase the speed of the app
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I have the Only name in the world no other is having tis name expect me!!!
I have built an Android App, using a jQuery Mobile index.html file "wrapped" inside Java using the Android SDK on Eclipse.
However, although the images appear OK within the Dreamweaver "Live" view for jQuery mobile,
they don't appear in the emulator in Android SDK after successful build.
I have added the image files within an image folder in the RES/mpdi folder of the project, and within the index.html file they are referenced as images/"...png" etc
Should I have changed the path in any way in the index.html file?
Also, they are 290x381 pixels - should I have had a different size for the AVD?
Thanks in advance!
David
I will assume you are using something like phonegap
phonegap has a whitelist that tells the app which URLs it's allowed to access. You can also add a * to it, as described http://www.anujgakhar.com/2011/11/22/phonegap-gotcha-error-whitelist-rejection/ found in in the /res/xml/phonegap.xml file
If I build a Phonegap Android app, how do I deploy it to an iPhone and Blackberry? Is it as simple as clicking a button or do I need the Phone and Blackberry SDKs and have to move the webview files manually?
You don't need to rewrite the app another time, you just install the iOS SDK and create a new project then add the .jar files of Phonegap. Then you copy and paste your app files (the HTML, Javascript and CSS files to the new project which you built).
It is simple indeed. But not as simple as that of clicking a button !
If you have developed it for android you will have an www directory which contains your index.html files with your js and images etc.
For android you would have used a js ( cordova.js / phonegap-android.js /similar ) through which you can access your android device specific things ( like buttons, camera, gps, etc ) .
If you are developing the same app for Blackberry , you need to replace the cordova.js with the same for blackberry ( which you can download from phonegap website )
And you need to setup a few things. It is pretty easy. See this link
And for iOs , you need a mac machine as only through Xcode you can develop.