Android ∞ On Android, you first need to define an emulator if you don’t have one. You do this by launching Eclipse ADT > Window > Android Virtual Device Manager. One you have defined your emulator, you can check your Cordova app on it by: cordova build android followed by cordova emulate android It takes …
Using the inappbrowser plugin: what should be in your config.xml is: <feature name="InAppBrowser"> <param name="android-package" value="org.apache.cordova.inappbrowser.InAppBrowser"/> </feature> and not <feature name="InAppBrowser"> <param name="android-package" value="org.apache.cordova.InAppBrowser"/> </feature> Also, if you want to use the back button handler on Android, make sure you have the following in your config.xml <feature name="App"> <param name="android-package" value="org.apache.cordova.App" /> </feature> Another issue …
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Instead of reading the many pages explaining endless details, the following explanation is exactly the sort I like – summarising only the things you need to get going: http://ionicframework.com/docs/guide/publishing.html While you’re there, it’s worthwhile to look at ionic as well.
Let me save you a lot of time: The Cordova Media plugin (org.apache.cordova.media) does not work well on Android and Windows Phone 8, at least in the version released with Cordova 3.1 (and I don’t see any indication of a change in the latest release either). On Android I assume media resources are not released …
If you require the ability to programmatically access the full power of the web browser without ever opening a web browser you should take a look at PhantomJS http://phantomjs.org/. Want even more power ? Combine it with CasperJS http://casperjs.org/. With these technologies you can run automated scripts that don’t require any desktop UI or browser …
Nice guide here I was unaware that Apache comes preinstalled with OS/X In a nutshell ∞ All the relevant files are at /etc/apache2 Starting, stopping, restarting the service is done with sudo apachectl start sudo apachectl stop sudo apachectl restart The default document root is at /Library/WebServer/Documents/ but you can create a different document rule …
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So you want to quickly test some static files from an http server ? Just cd to the folder where these files are and: Using Python 2.x: python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000 Using Python 3.x: python -m http.server 8000 Another option, if you have PHP installed is: php -S localhost:8000
and opensourced it… link is at: https://github.com/amnond/cordova-on-browser
Someone already made something similar: http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/where-is-my-car-web-app-and-phonegap-app At this point I’m looking for a good cordova.js stub file – seems others are also looking for something like that but there aren’t any to be found in the small search I’ve made – only the Ripple chrome extension which only supports Cordova 2.0 and didn’t really work …
I’ve seen various attempts to use JavaScript to customise the file upload button. The browsers historically do not lend themselves to making this easy to achieve due to security considerations – the idea is not to make it simple for anyone to upload a file from the PC to a remote website without the user …
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