cybind / travelly

PhoneGap application for travelers

Travelly

It is an example from the book "PhoneGap by Example".

Installation Prerequisites

• Install Node.js from Node.js official website
• Install Cordova with NPM: $ npm install -g cordova

iOS setup

In order to be able to run the application being developed in iOS Simulator or on an iOS device connected to our computer, we need the following:

• OS: Mac OS X
• IDE: Xcode (6.0 and newer)
• iOS SDK

You can download Xcode from https://developer.apple.com/xcode/downloads/ and iOS SDK from https://developer.apple.com/ios/download/

The only disappointment when developing for iOS with the ability to debug on your computer is a limitation of the operating system by Apple. Unfortunately, it only must be Mac OS X operating system.

Android Setup

Setting up the project to run the application on Android platform looks a little bit easier. But also has its complexity. To run the application in the Android simulator or on Android device connected to our computer, we need the following:

• OS: Linux or Windows or Mac
• Java: Oracle JDK
• IDE: Android Studio
• Android SDK

Clone

After that you can clone this repo and we can run the application.

Running

• Open Xcode project travelly/platforms/ios/Travelly.xcodeproj
• Select the intended device from the toolbar's Scheme menu
• Press the Run button that appears in the same toolbar to the left of the Scheme. That builds, deploys and runs the application in the emulator. A separate emulator application opens to display the app.

A similar procedure can be done with the help of Cordova CLI.

$ cordova build ios

This generates ios platform-specific code within the project's platforms subdirectory. The cordova build command is a shorthand for the following:

$ cordova prepare ios
$ cordova compile ios

To run our application in iOS emulator it is enough to execute the following command:

$ cordova emulate ios

And we see the same application in the emulator that we saw when run from XCode.