My real problem is that I need to get youtube videos to play from my app but I can't seem to get it to work... all my research has brought me to this point (hence why I am asking):
As documented here in order to allow external content to open in an iFrame with phonegap you need to modify phonegap.plist.
I've been using their "Build" service which allows you to just add a .zip file and it complies everything for you (spitting out complied code in different formats)
Is there a way to edit phonegap.plist and still use the "Build" service?
Is there a way to edit phonegap.plist and still use the "Build" service?
No, although you can configure some of the items that end up in the phonegap.plist through a config.xml (see docs), the ExternalHosts is not one of the current configurable options.
Also see this related discussion on their feedback forum.
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We have a custom ROM for a device we are making and what I want to do is make our own custom Settings app to replace the settings app that comes already built in android.
I cant really find any documentation on how to even create a system app. It does not appear you can create it in Android Studio, I tried looking on the AOSP site and didnt find anything there related to creating system apps. The few things I did find were on here where you would put android:sharedUserId="android.uid.system" in your manifest and then has to be signed with the same key as the ROM but after that I cant find anything.
The settings app I want to create would need access to the framework.jar to be able to use the hidden framework API's.
Does anyone have any information or know where I can find this information on how to go about actually creating a system app?
You may want to research how to make a Device Tree Overlay (dto). Basically it is your code, reformatting the base code, into what you want. https://source.android.com/devices/architecture/dto?hl=en
Since you said you use Gradle, you should put first build you apk and put them in you vender folder, and next important thing is to create a mk/bp file to tell the Android build system how to deal with this pre-built apk.
P.S. If you system app highly depends on Android hidden api, make sure you have the right version of framework.jar in you Android Studio project, or, as what I alway did, create apps directly in AOSP, in this case, you can just check the code structure of the original Settings app in AOSP
this tutorial may help you.
Here is my issue, I am using Bootstrap (twbs:bootstrap), font-awesome (natestrauser:font-awesome) and Avatar (utilities:avatar).
When I load my application in a desktop browser, all assets load fine.
When I load my application in a mobile browser, all assets load fine.
But when I load my application in the compiled (Android) app, font-awesome and Avatar don't load their assets. The reason I am targeting them is they are both reliant on contacting outside sources. font-awesome is served off of a CDN and Avatar retrieves avatars from social networks. I know I can package font-awesome but I can't do the same for avatars so I need to figure this out.
I have looked to see if Meteor does something odd like sandboxing the app to prevent outside contact but I can't seem to find any mention of these kinds of issues. Is there a default security settings that I can set where it would allow my app to 'contact' whitelisted sites? It would be absurd but it is Meteor after all.
I figure someone more knowledgeable in Meteor can point out my error.
There is no code for font-awesome (besides using CSS classes) and there is really no specific code for Avatar besides {{> avatar ... }}
Thank you in advance!
Note, as of 5/30/2017: Please skip to EDIT 2 below unless you want to read the very long and confusing ramblings of my former self. Thank you.
Okay, I was right but not necessarily right about who was causing what (I was kind of right). The reasoning behind it makes sense so I am thankful for that.
Here is what I've determined. Cordova has a whitelist under /res/config.xml where URLs are whitelisted and only those URLs are the only URLs allowed outside of the application.
But, if you try to edit config.xml it will be overwritten by Meteor on build which indicates this config is governed / overwritten by Meteor.
I searched around and found a few things: Meteor / Cordova, Meteor. The second article gives the solution. You must use the package browser-policy to whitelist what URLs you want.
After installing browser-policy, you must include them in a file in /server. I tried installing them inside a if(Meteor.isServer) block outside of /server but it didn't work.
Hope this helped! I couldn't find anything similar to this and I presume others will run into this road block as well
EDIT: This will only fix it for desktop. For my issue, I had to create a top-level file called mobile-config.js and use config settings from this page to whitelist URLs. This change happened in Meteor 1.0.4
EDIT 2:
Here is it said more clearly: You must whitelist all outside URLs that you want to contact inside of mobile-config.js
For instance, if you want to contact google.com from your mobile app, you would add
App.accessRule('https://www.google.com')
Thankfully Meteor has fixed their extreme documentation issue and has now included this on the official documentation here
I'm trying to install Kik Messenger twice. I have two accounts and don't like to log out because I lose all of my conversation history. I'm currently using Titanium backup's profile feature, which is a very nice fix, but it's still a pain having to switch back and forth between profiles. I might be looking for "perfect" when perfect doesn't exist. I am completely new to modding apks and Android in general, all of my work on this so far has been "trial and error". Anyways, here's what I have:
I have the Google Play version of Kik installed on my phone. I have extracted that app and modified the package name successfully using apktool. However, when I try to install, I get an error saying something about duplicate provider authority. So I did some research and learned that I'm supposed to edit this part of the AndroidManifest. So I have played around with that a little bit and after I change the authorities, I am able to install the modded app. However, it crashes immediately.
Does anyone know how to fix this problem with the provider/authorities?
The issue you're hitting is that the app has registered certain classes to handle particular events. These need to be unique across all installed apps and point to existing classes in the app that will perform some activity with the supplied information.
You bypassed the safety check when installing by changing the defined handlers in the Manifest but that didn't really fix it as they still need to actually point to a valid, working class that can handle the requests/events.
You would need to decompile, rename the classes involved and all references made to them and recompile the whole app to really fix the problem. However, I'd assume that it would likely be against the license. If the code is open source then it wouldn't be too big a task to rename some classes & packages then build the app. If it's closed source then it is a harder task.
What you can do is either set up your device to use multiple accounts (the OS not the app) as each user has a separate data storage and preference location that should allow you to have two configurations. Or you can request that the developers include some sort of multiple account handling or easy account swap feature.
Hello I am trying to build an app which will hold "other app's"
For example MY app will hold different apps of different ClIENTS.
Now i want to make it so that 1 client has the option to only download his part, BUT he still has to use MY main app. (in other words i don't want to reference to another APK, cause then he can start his app without using mine(i think))
And the download option should be at runtime, cause else he has to download everything in one go.
I have thought about using jar files as library files, but what i found so far is that you have to add them in Eclipse (else they are not found)
I also thought about building the app with the jar files in it, and then leave them out when i compile the app. Then my client can download those files afterwards. But i am guessing that will cause reference errors?
So the questions are;
Is it possible?
How to go about?
The main idea is that i don't want to make one HUGE app where as my client will only use his part of it.
Thanks in advance
It can be achieved in android, and some big platform apps could let the 3rd party developers to develop plugins for them. The main idea is try to create your own DexClassLoader to replace the default one, the custom DexClassLoader could load classes from apkfile.
Try to look through this article for details.
Same with this question.
It seems this is a difficult topic. I can only give you some point.
Since you don't want to make a huge app, then you have to build CLIENTs as separate APKs. But if you don't define CLIENT's activity as MAIN and DEFAULT in manifest, after install CLIENT app, user could not find CLIENT app from system menu (launcher). You can define a private intent name for CLIENT app's activity, this way, only your main app could start CLIENT app's activity.
i have used eclipse, android sdk and phonegap to create a small application. I give it a test and create a test.apk package.
What i ma wondering is where can i set up some details about this app, like who made it, the app name, the version, an icon maybe, any other things i might need to setup.
I have a AndroidManifest.xml file and when i open it i get a nice gui but i don't know what to modify there
Im not sure what i need to set up and even if i need to.
A good tutorial is much appreciated. Thanks
You can set most of those things in the manifest file. If you want to include this information in your code, add license headers in all your classes, use java-doc etc.
If you want this information to be accessible in your app like from 'About' button, you have to handle it yourself.
Take a look at this example.
This details are to be filled when you upload it to android market. I dont think you set them in AndroidManifest.xml ! you can see the xml code , by clicking on the "source code" tab just below the UI .
Here's a tutorial that describes managing AndroidManifest.xml, the app name and icons from our AppLaud Eclipse plugin for PhoneGap Android.