Say I've got a working AIR app that needs to also bundle a driver (licensing okay) for some hardware that the app uses. Anyone know if its possible to launch the driver installer at the end of the app install?
I'm not finding good documentation on this and im wondering if there is a standard pre-install / post-install script I can create to handle stuff like this.
Thanks
Stabby
You should be able to use the NativeProcess API to accomplish this.
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I am aware that I can package a Shoes Ruby app into a dmg, exe, and other Linux formats, but can I do an APK? I'm hoping to run a Shoes app on my Samsung Galaxy. Is there some gem or some long process to achieve this? Any method will do.
Very likely the answer is no and even if someone somehow built a way it probably won't be something you will want to use. GUI programming between desktop and mobile is very different and you will usually have to use different tools for both. The best you will get is writing a GUI using HTML/CSS/JS and using tools to get those running on mobile and desktop.
I need to buy a Mac just for building ionic/phonegap/cordova hybrid apps.
Which model is good enough for the task?
Want to spend as little as possible and I don't mind if it is slow.
The best idea would be to rent a mac rather that purchasing it just for the sake of building hybrid apps. You can consider MacInCloud option which may work out cheap for you.
There is a better (cheaper) solutions for you,
Use adobe phone gap build? build.phonegap.com/
it is very powerful, just upload your code in zip file and it will do all the stuff for you, i have been using for a while, and it allows you to have free unlimited builds for one app.
Use the ionic native build service, i felt that phoneGap build is easier and better, however, ionic native build allow you to have 30 native builds per month. http://docs.ionic.io/docs/package-ios
For sure these will work using windows or Linux, but you still need to create the build certificates to use these services, and to do so you need a mac,
So for me i have used a virtual machine copy of (OSX) to create the certificates on windows, or you can borrow a friends mac to do that :) .
I am pretty newbie in that subject so any pointers are welcome. I am going to create some UI application for OSX (using Swift language if it's matter). While app in early stages I have no choice other than starting it from XCode, but once app get matured enough to be useful I'd like to install it on my own machine and play with it as regular user would do. Under "install" I mean - it should be visible/accessible in regular way with icons etc. How to do it? Thanks!
You need to create an app bundle (extension .app), you just need to create it using xcode and that's all, here's the documentation with the bundle structure: link
When your app is bundled, move your app to the Applications folder and you're ready to go.
I am developing some freeware applications. Mostly they are written in Java to make them run on multiple systems. Meanwhile I have some thousand users and so it makes a lot of fun.
To make the Java apps easier to run under Windows, I also create executable wrappers using launch4j and installer applications using inno setup.
Now I have problem, because of Windows 8. In former Windows versions the OS just showed up a message by trying to start such an executable which was saying that the exe file comes from an "unknown" vendor. In Windows 8 they made it even harder. There is something like "Windows protected you from this dangerous application!".
So I am highly interested in signing my apps. But I am not willing to pay anything for this as I offer my software for free. Using Google I found the "CAcert" project that allows people to create free certificates. But I haven't found detailed information about the following questions:
can I create certificates to sign executables?
can I create certificates using my company name?
Is there anyone familiar with CAcert?
Or has anyone another hint to solve my problem?
thanks a lot...
Well, you can use use a CAcert certificate to sign your code, but it won't help you. That's because the OS doesn't install the CAcert root certificate.
If you want to stop your users seeing these messages you'll need to obtain a commercial certificate.
I am not sure even of a starting point with this.. however knowing that Silverlight works across win/mac platforms (as far as I know!), is it possible to create a silverlight based screensaver?
If not, are there any tools (no flash skills unfortunately!)
Any starter points would be cool..
Thanks!
By now Silvelight is being deprecated, but if you need to run web pages as a screensaver, my startup is creating a product to do exactly that, it's called Screensaver Ninja and you can find more about it at https://screensaver.ninja. That means that all you have to do is develop the web app and leave the screensaver part to us.
Here's a screenshot of how you configure it:
Silverlight is only usable as a web browser plugin on Mac OS X. It cannot be practically used to build screensavers.
Additionally, there's good reason to believe that Silverlight is being abandoned by Microsoft. I'd avoid it for any new development.