Spring boot REST API and Ionic/Angular mobile app - example

Overview

A sample app to demonstrate Spring Boot - Ionic mobile app
The server scraps the websites (uses JSoup) to read Quotes and store into db.
- see g.t.quote.scrapper.WebScraper
The client (mobile app) will randomly display such quotes. Has an ability to record and display view count.

Follow installation steps from https://ionicframework.com/docs/v1/guide/installation.html
Download android SDK and add ANDROID_HOME. It was C:\Users\gt\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk
Generate APK file: ionic cordova build --release android
DEV/PROD environment --> currently we need to manually comment/uncomment mobile/src/app/app.constants.ts for SERVER_API_URL
- Ionic 4 will have default support for environment variables

Uses JSoup to parse the quote websites and stores into H2 database at startup
Quotes can be retrieved by REST apis HOST/quotes
Deploy to Heroku
Did below updates for Heroky. Since its a multi module Maven app:
- Added file: Procfile web: java -jar server/target/server-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar -Dserver.port=$PORT
- Added server.port entry on application.yml server: port: ${PORT:8080}

Start Server : Run g.t.quote.QuoteApplication
Start client
- Comment/Uncomment the line to use
  - localhost:8080 to use local server
  - https://gt-quote-app.herokuapp.com/ to use app deployed on heroku
- cd to mobile directory and run ionic server and ionic open
To generate APK
- Follow https://ionicframework.com/docs/v1/guide/publishing.html
  - Make sure app.constants.ts is pointing to heroku app URL
  - Run ionic cordova build --release android
  - Grab the debug version of apk app-debug.apk and copy to your android device and install the APK
    - It should be FOLDER\quote-app\mobile\platforms\android\app\build\outputs\apk\debug\