Phone Gap Examples

tpis001

Hi Everyone...

Has anyone got an example of an app published to the App Store or android store using Aware IM yet?

I'd be super interested in hearing about how you've found the experience and how well Aware IM works in this area.

Thanks!

Martyn

mrbdrm

i am on the work of getting my app published on App store and android store.
i can tell you that the app will work but there is some point you need to keep in mind:

1- you can't logout of the system (going back to the index page on the app).
2-any link that will start a Query from the VP e.g(<a href="#" onclick="AwareApp.runQuery....) will open the device browser and ask for login. possibly in other places also.
3- viewing PDF documents will not work.(thankfully there is a workaround)
4- session time out will cause the app to continuously display session time out message and need to close and reopen again.
5- need to slightly modify config.xml before you can access the camera or the files in ios otherwise the app will crash on ios when you try to access the files or camera.

that what i can remember for now.
otherwise everything else is ok

tpis001

Hi... Thanks for this - really good reply.

I wonder if support could comment on whether there could be an option to have different time out settings based on device type in the future? For example, a 90 minute timeout via desktop, but a different timeout when accessing via an app?

Also- number 2 - links opening the browser, this sounds very clunky. Again, any advice from support about plans in this area would be good.

Thanks, Martyn

Gabbitas

Hi All,

Can anyone tell me if it's possible to have a user enter their business space name when running a native mobile app?

The situation I face is this:

I do not run a multi tenant app but instead have a single app that I export into a separate business space each with its own database for each of my clients. This keeps everyone's data separate.

What I would like to do is create a native app of my core application using the PhoneGap functionality and publish it to the various app stores. I would then like each of my clients to be able to download the native app and enter their credentials (business space name, login name and password) so they may gain access to their respective business space.

Is this somehow possible?

Many Thanks

aware_support

Yes, it should be possible. Use the admin logon page (logonAdmin.html) as an example of a logon page that uses a business space. Then unzip the PhoneGap zip file generated by Aware IM and replace the logon page automatically created there with your version that uses the business space field. Then zip it up again.

Gabbitas

Support, that's perfect thank you.

How about the other issues raised? Are there any plans to address these or are they even issues in the latest build?

1- you can't logout of the system (going back to the index page on the app).
2-any link that will start a Query from the VP e.g(<a href="#" onclick="AwareApp.runQuery....) will open the device browser and ask for login. possibly in other places also.
3- viewing PDF documents will not work.(thankfully there is a workaround)
4- session time out will cause the app to continuously display session time out message and need to close and reopen again.
5- need to slightly modify config.xml before you can access the camera or the files in ios otherwise the app will crash on ios when you try to access the files or camera.

Many Thanks

aware_support

1- you can't logout of the system (going back to the index page on the app).
You should NOT have any logout in your native application. There is no such thing.

2-any link that will start a Query from the VP e.g(<a href="#" onclick="AwareApp.runQuery....) will open the device browser and ask for login. possibly in other places also.
You should NOT have such links in a native application. If you do the browser will open as it should

3- viewing PDF documents will not work.(thankfully there is a workaround)
Cannot do much about it yet

4- session time out will cause the app to continuously display session time out message and need to close and reopen again.
Just like logout you should NOT have a session timeout in your native app. Set it to indefinite or live with the current behaviour

5- need to slightly modify config.xml before you can access the camera or the files in ios otherwise the app will crash on ios when you try to access the files or camera.
What exactly do you modify?

ORS61

mrbdrm wrote
3- viewing PDF documents will not work.(thankfully there is a workaround)

@[deleted] @support

Can you please share workaround for viewing pdf documents from mobile version.

mrbdrm

to fix the crash on IOS with accessing the camera and files.
Here is what you need to put in the config.xml

<config-file platform="ios" parent="NSCameraUsageDescription" mode="replace">  

    <string>put your text here</string>  

</config-file>  
  

  

<config-file platform="ios" parent="NSPhotoLibraryUsageDescription" mode="replace">  

    <string>put your text here</string>  

</config-file>

To view PDF on your app you will need to do the following:
1- PDF server (https://mozilla.github.io/pdf.js/) i installed to directory: /AwareIM/PDF
2-plugin to view the PDFs (read about how to use it in npm site) add this line to config.xml

<plugin name="cordova-plugin-inappbrowser" source="npm"/>

3- js script to run the inappbrowser something like this🙁aware doesn't pass strings correctly here. so i needed to do some slicing.

function LopenBrowser(LbasedURL,RbasedURL) {
	L = LbasedURL.toString().slice(0,-1); 
	R = RbasedURL.toString().slice(0,-1); 
	var url = 'https://yoursite/AwareIM/PDF/web/viewer.html?file=https://yoursite/AwareIM/TEMP_RESOURCES' + L + R + '.pdf' ;
    var target = '_blank';
    var options = "location=no,closebuttoncaption=the back button caption"
    var ref = cordova.InAppBrowser.open(url, target, options);
}

4- from aware you need to export the document first (i did so to AwareIM/TEMP_RESOURCES) then call the script like so:

EXEC_SCRIPT 'LopenBrowser(/<<LoggedInRegularUser.LoginName>>/,/<<comunications.UID>>/)'

Thats it!
my application is live in google but still in review by apple.

Jaymer

what is your app called?

mrbdrm

Jaymer wrote
what is your app called?

My app is in arabic and requires login.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=gate.shaqraedu.gov.sa

mrbdrm

my app was approved by apple.

i have a question to Vlad:

1-How do we deal with documents like images and compressed files that we want to download? currently aware open the browser and ask for login.
2- how can we set infinite timeout only for mobile? as far as i know we can't
3- how can we set session to be live on mobile native login?