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
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 all that well with my basic App. If I wont find a cordova.js stub I’ll create it myself.
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 knowing about it. However, the problem is that from a UI perspective, you are stuck with what the browser supplies.
All the attempts I’ve seen to try and hack the browser file upload input tag have been quite bad. They mostly involve trying to put some other element over the browser created button, catching clicks on that element and then forwarding them to the original button. The mileage for this method varies with the browser used and also requires creating your specific image to cover the button, which gets tiresome if you want to change languages or colours.
Enter upload-at-click. A brilliant piece of work that works with every browser (even including IE6 !). Take a look at it and you’ll see why I’m impressed.
When running the project via xCode, the reason there was no access to the device sensors on iOS from JavaScript became apparent from the logs:
ios ERROR: Plugin Compass not found, or is not a CDVPlugin. Check your plugin mapping in config.xml
Of course, the config.xml was just fine, but at least this gave me a lead. A search yielded a similar problem others had been having which was solved by deleting the ./plugins/ios.json file, removing the ./platforms/ios directory, re-adding the cordova ios platform for the project via cordova platform add ios and rebuilding the project.
After this, I could finally see the compass heading on my iPhone.
On ios 7 and higher, the status bar interferes with the top part of the html view of the cordova application. This can be resolved by
cordova plugin add org.apache.cordova.device
an then
function onDeviceReady() {
// a few examples that can be returned from device.platform are:
// - "Android"
// - "BlackBerry"
// - "iOS"
// - "WinCE"
// - "Tizen"
if (device.platform == "iOS" && parseFloat(device.version) >= 7.0)
document.body.style.marginTop = "20px";
// your stuff goes here
}
To run our Cordova sample on iOS, I’m using a Mac OS/X Maverics with Xcode 5.02 installed.
To add ios support in our compass application, from within the compass directory, issue:
cordova platform add ios
This went smoothly.
Next, building the project:
cordova build ios
This also went smoothly.
Finally:
cordova run ios
This yielded:
Error: An error occurred while running the ios project.Error: ios-deploy was not found. Please download, build and install version 1.0.4 or greater from https://github.com/phonegap/ios-deploy into your path. Or 'npm install -g ios-deploy' using node.js: http://nodejs.org/
I opted for the 2nd option which seemed to go ok:
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/ios-deploy npm http 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/ios-deploy npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/ios-deploy/-/ios-deploy-1.0.4.tgz npm http 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/ios-deploy/-/ios-deploy-1.0.4.tgz > ios-deploy@1.0.4 preinstall /usr/local/lib/node_modules/ios-deploy > make ios-deploy rm -rf *.app demo ios-deploy gcc -o ios-deploy -framework CoreFoundation -framework MobileDevice -F/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks ios-deploy.c /usr/local/bin/ios-deploy -> /usr/local/lib/node_modules/ios-deploy/ios-deploy ios-deploy@1.0.4 /usr/local/lib/node_modules/ios-deploy
running cordova run ios ended with ‘Platform “ios” ran successfully.’ with one minor problem: Nothing happened on my ios device. No application was loaded to the device, let alone launched.
It immediately occurred to me that Apple won’t let you do shit without paying something first (With the iPhone, unlike Windows Phone 8 and Android, I couldn’t even get the phone OS operating without putting in a working SIM card, and also unlike them, you can’t just start uploading applications to your device without coughing up $99/year for a Apple Developer’s ID).
Luckily I had an Apple developer’s id I could use so I imported the certificate by opening the Xcode project that Cordova created and following the directions.
After than again cordova run ios, and now finally I saw the icon of the cordova compass application. Launching the application showed the basic html but the heading and geolocation were not displayed.
Looking at the cordova documentation for iOS for the compass, I saw that the following was needed in the config.xml file:
<feature name="Compass">
<param name="ios-package" value="CDVLocation" />
</feature>
so I added it. At the same opportunity I also added the following for the geolocation access:
<feature name="Geolocation">
<param name="ios-package" value="CDVLocation" />
</feature>
and repeated:
cordova build ios corova run ios
and again, nothing. Tomorrow we go back to basics and try to make a minimal cordova sample of reading the compass.
By the way, to run the iOS emulator from the command line (at least on Cordova 3.2.0):
cordova run --emulator ios
Yeah, this is a silly one which you can easily find by running man du but somehow I never got to it and ended up using less efficient methods:
du -h -d1 .
This will probably work on other versions of Ubuntu and Linux as well:
Assumes you have python >= 2.6 already instaled:
$ wget -P Downloads/ http://python-distribute.org/distribute_setup.py $ sudo python Downloads/distribute_setup.py $ sudo easy_install pip
Just some notes that have accumulated:
when trying to mount a remote windows NTFS system via:
sudo mount -t cifs //192.168.0.112/E -o username=Administrator,password=mypass /home/me/mybackup/
and receiving:
wrong fs type bad option bad superblock on …
this is because the cifs flag requires:
$ sudo apt-get install smbfs
more info here
Adding a program to unity launcher:
$ gnome-desktop-item-edit --create-new ~/Desktop
fill in the details, then drag the created icon from the desktop to the unity launcher
Changing icon in unity launcher
$ gksu nautilus /usr/share/applications
color console output in git:
$ git config --global color.ui auto
In ubuntu – use the ALT+mouse drag to drag a window when for some reason you can’t click on it’s title in order to drag it. When using ALT+mouse drag you can drag the window by clicking on any part of it and moving the mouse.
Just putting it here since the next time it’s needed I won’t remember:
ALTER TABLE tbl_name CONVERT TO CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci;
got it from here