I am trying to use Ionic on Mac, but building to an android emulator target and not just running the browser version. The Cordova docs indicate that Android Studio should have everything, and indeed there are all the relevant wrappers etc. there:
$ ls ../AndroidProjects/
AndroidProjects.iml gradle local.properties
app gradle.properties settings.gradle
build gradlew
build.gradle gradlew.bat
But somehow I can't figure out what to add to my PATH to get a project in a different directory to find that stuff, and I don't want to download gradle itself.
$ ionic cordova emulate android
<stuff>
(node:56809) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Unhandled promise rejection (rejection id: 1): CordovaError: Could not find an installed version of Gradle either in Android Studio,
or on your system to install the gradle wrapper. Please include gradle
in your path, or install Android Studio
Even if I explicitly put the Android Studio project folder in my path, this happens. Weirdly, the final message is still
[OK] Your app has been deployed.
This does not appear to be this question or this question.
I am trying to run gradlew on offline machine. It starts from message
Downloading https://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-2.10-all.zip
and then fails with exception.
What it wants and how to satisfy it?
Option 1. If you have possibility go online temporary
Command gradlew means you are trying to use Gradle Wrapper. It is a tool for automated downloading of Gradle distribution.
In order to download Gradle Wrapper you have to execute gradlew command with a proper network connection at least once.
Make sure you have correct network and proxy settings.
./gradlew build
Only after that you can build a project offline. Example:
./gradlew build --offline
Option 2. Download distribution by hand
Or, alternatively, you could download distribution from official site. Then extract it, add gradle to PATH variable, and run:
gradle build --offline
Until now, all of my experience compiling PhoneGap apps has been via the excellent PhoneGap:Build service. However, I now find myself in a situation where I need to compile locally, because I need to use a plugin that includes a binary file, which precludes it from being included for use with PG:B.
So for these reasons, I need to compile locally. "Great!" I thought, I'll just use the new CLI...
I have developed my app, and I can test it on-device via deploy over USB from Xcode, but trying to get a release build, and sign it, with the provisioning profile embedded, has been a nightmare.
For completeness, this is the basic outline of everything I've done, aside from the app development itself.
$ pwd
/users/adam/dev/myapp/mobile/
$ cordova create build_local com.foo.bar MyApp
Creating a new cordova project with name "MyApp" and id "com.foo.bar" at location "/Users/adam/DEV/myapp/build_local"
$ cd build_local
$ cordova platform add ios
Creating ios project...
$ cordova platform add android
Creating android project...
Creating Cordova project for the Android platform:
Path: platforms/android
Package: com.foo.bar
Name: MyApp
Android target: android-19
Copying template files...
<snip>
Project successfully created.
$ cordova plugin add https://github.com/hazemhagrass/BackgroundJS
Fetching plugin "https://github.com/hazemhagrass/BackgroundJS" via git clone
Installing com.badrit.BackgroundJS (android)
Fetching plugin "https://github.com/apache/cordova-plugin-device.git" via git clone
Installing org.apache.cordova.device (android)
Installing com.badrit.BackgroundJS (ios)
Installing org.apache.cordova.device (ios)
$ cordova plugin add de.appplant.cordova.plugin.local-notification
Fetching plugin "de.appplant.cordova.plugin.local-notification" via plugin registry
Installing de.appplant.cordova.plugin.local-notification (android)
Installing de.appplant.cordova.plugin.local-notification (ios)
$ cordova plugin add https://github.com/kdzwinel/phonegap-estimotebeacons
Fetching plugin "https://github.com/kdzwinel/phonegap-estimotebeacons" via git clone
Installing pl.makingwaves.estimotebeacons (android)
Installing pl.makingwaves.estimotebeacons (ios)
For what it's worth, this last plugin is the reason that I have to compile locally.
Now, here's one other potential monkey wrench: This app is actually two apps. It's the same core codebase, merged into two different deployment branches of the repo, one for each client. So each app will have its own id, name, and config stuff. Because of this, I actually have more than one cordova project folder (1 for each final app) and after creating each project through the steps above, I remove the generated www folder and replace it with a symlink to the shared www folder that exists outside of these phonegap project directories.
This is supported behavior; the CLI allows you to generate your app with a symlink via the --link-to flag (see cordova help create for details). However, doing so seems to have issues; so I've resorted to doing all of the app config up front and then replacing the generated www folder with a symlink after everything is ready to compile.
At this point, I can deploy to either the iOS simulator or Android emulator, and I can deploy to devices over USB, and everything works just fine; all of my plugins are available and function as expected. So I'm ready to compile a release build. Android is easy. iOS, not so much.
$ cordova build ios
<snip>
** BUILD SUCCEEDED **
However, this is a DEV build. The generated file is in the build/emulator/ folder, and when I attempt to sign it, I'm told that it's not signed because of the I386 architecture (which indicates that it's a development build).
$ xcrun -sdk iphoneos PackageApplication -v "platforms/ios/build/emulator/MyApp.app" -o "/users/adam/dev/myapp/MyApp.ipa" --sign "iPhone Distribution: {our cert name} ({our cert id})"
<snip>
Codesign check fails : platforms/ios/build/emulator/MyApp.app: code object is not signed at all
In architecture: i386
<snip>
I've attempted to generate a release build from the cordova CLI. I haven't been able to find the --release flag documented anywhere, but the CLI doesn't complain, and it usually does if it doesn't recognize a flag.
$ cordova build ios --release
<same result as previously>
Attempting to sign this build results in the same problem.
At this point, I started attempting to work directly in Xcode. I've set the .mobileprovision file and the signing credentials up appropriately, to the best of my knowledge:
With these values set, Xcode no longer allows me to build:
So I'm stuck: I have no choice but to build locally, and I can't figure out how to get it to build for release and sign! Please help!
Additionally, if I attempt to embed a provisioning profile, that fails because of an issue with entitlements. I'm not exactly sure what this means, but I'm hopeful that it's a result of working with a dev build, and resolving that will resolve this as well.
$ test -e ~/.ios/DEV.mobileprovision && echo exists
exists
$ xcrun -sdk iphoneos PackageApplication -v "platforms/ios/build/emulator/MyApp.app" -o "/users/adam/dev/myapp/MyApp.ipa" --embed "~/.ios/DEV.mobileprovision"
<snip>
error: Failed to read entitlements from '/var/folders/zs/j2hmt69n12sbjm6gyn0m_q4c0000gn/T/tyYvYPQKf3/Payload/MyApp.app'
Update 1:
This SO question helped in one regard. I don't know how the active scheme (I'm not really sure what that means, but that's the tooltip when I hover over the control) got changed as part of specifying keys/etc, but clearly it did. Changing this back to an iOS Device, like iPhone, allows me to build my project, and even Archive (which, to the best of my understanding, means it's creating the .ipa file I need to submit to the app store), but I can't find the archived file. Where should it be? Can I define this in a setting somewhere in Xcode?
Update 2:
By fiddling with certificates and provisioning profiles I've finally been able to create an archive from Xcode, which I've been told is a release build (is it?). Ideally I would like to be able to build from the command line so that I can automate it as much as possible, so that's where I'll be picking up in the morning. Any advice on that front would be quite welcome!
If you managed to create an archive in Xcode, then your signing certificate and provisioning profiles are known to Xcode, so cordova build ios --release --device should make it.
The steps are:
1) Import your iOS developer certificate for production to the keychain by downloading and double clicking on it in Finder (or get it via Xcode)
2) Download your provisioning profile (with the App ID set to the id attribute of the widget element in config.xml) and double click it on Finder so it goes to the Xcode provisioning profile store
3) cordova build ios --release --device
it looks like you're trying to sign the app with a wildcard provisioning profile (the XCode screenshot). Can you try creating and downloading a distribution certificate and provprofile to your Mac? Then import the .cer file in the keychain access app (doubleclicking should suffice) and doubleclick the provprofile as well.
Now you should be able to select the appropriate values from the release dropdowns in the XCode build settings.
Hope this helps somewhat...
Eddy
One other issue I am seeing from your screenshot is I don't think you can Build an Archive (Release) version using the Developer Signing Idenetity, you would need to create a Distribution certificate and use that one for the Release (Archive) version.
How can I build NodeJS within the XCode IDE as a project? NodeJS build instructions say that it should be built with:
./configure
make
make install
However I wish to build within the XCode IDE.
What I really want to do is embed NodeJS within my application, so I think if I can build NodeJS within XCode then I can just adjust it to add my application once I have NodeJS building and running.
I made some progress I think by getting V8 to compile in XCode, now I am trying to add NodeJS to the V8 project.
Run ./configure --xcode in node repository root and you will get node.xcodeproj file you want.
As of this commit in Node.js - https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/20328 one must do -
./configure -- -f xcode
I am developing an app for multiple platforms using Cordova. Grunt is used as a build tool. I use it to copy my source code to the right folder for each platform so I can develop them independently.
This works fine with Android using the scripts that are provided by Cordova. However, I have no idea if or how it is possible to automate the WP build process. I'm looking for two things:
Add all files in the www directory to the VS project (it does not include files that are not added to the project, which is sad).
Build, install and run the app in the emulator. I used adb & Grunt's exec for Android which was really simple, is there something similar for WP?
If you look in a cordova windows phone project there is a directory called 'cordova' which contains scripts to do all of this.
There should be scripts to build and run your project.
The run script can pretty much do it all. You can call it like :
run --device --release
or
run --emulator --debug
or just
run
A recent commit now makes it possible to use www\** in the .csproj file, which solved my first issue.