Sencha Cordova Builder - Automated Builds for PhoneGap Projects

[bricemason]

@slick84 - I haven't noticed any huge bloat when wrapping with PhoneGap. Based on some tests I just ran, the sample app wrapped in PhoneGap and Sencha native packaging has some key differences. The resulting size of the PhoneGap-wrapped app is 684KB. The resulting size of the Sencha native packaged app is 17.2MB. Big difference there, not sure where it comes from. I will say also that the Sencha native packaged app isn't unusable. It is the sample app so take that for what it is. There are plenty of other ways we can make our apps unusable

@karensilkwood - I'm glad you got everything up and running! I am interested in supporting other platforms. I will have to make sure all else is stable first but if I had my choice, I'd try out Windows 8 first. I was a .NET developer for a while and like the platform.

@JRS - Yeah, the screencast is now outdated based on some recent updates. I will update that screencast by early next week, sorry for the confusion. Building both together should work in your case since it's basically calling those two separate targets together. You wrote in your post build-cordova-all. The target name to be used should be -build-cordova-all. Could you confirm this is what you implemented? Sounds silly, just wanted to double-check. If that doesn't work, please post your build.xml file and cordova.properties file for a quick inspection.

Thanks everyone for your feedback and help.

Brice

[JRS]

Hi Brice,

I verified both your suggestions - I did have the proper spelling in both files - just tried it again and it all worked. It didn't when I posted - just need the word from you I guess!

Don't know what changed from last night to this afternoon - but it working now - the only thing I did was - I did shut my Mac down and rebooted it this morning - I wonder if that might have had any effect.

I'll try it on my app - as opposed to the Sencha default app and see how it goes.

Thanks again for your help and your projects
Much appreciated
JRS
PS: Perhaps you can just an add a note on the screencast to follow directions the readme file
Also, I added these lines in the cordova.properties (don't know if it is needed or not )

cordova.android.tools.bin.create=${cordova.android.tools.bin}/create

cordova.ios.tools.bin.create=${cordova.ios.tools.bin}/create

[JRS]

Sorry stupid error on my part - there was a debugger statement in one of the files.

[erbud]

Hi guys,


First of all congratulate Brice, Sencha Cordova Builder is very comfortable and clean.


I've found an issue when using Sencha Touch 2 (Ext.device.Device) + PhoneGap. We describe in the following post:


http://www.sencha.com/forum/showthre...ndroidEmulator


You have found this scenario?


Regards,

[bricemason]

@JRS - I'm glad you found the solution. As a side note, you had added that extra line to your cordova.properties file which defined the path to the phonegap 'create' script. This is fine but it wasn't necessary. The latest release of sencha cordova builder will automatically determine the 'create' script to use. This helps it be os-independent. If you were were working in a PC environment, it would have automatically determined that you'd need to use 'create.bat' instead of 'create'

@erbud - Did you check out the docs on Ext.device.Device? There's a note in there that says that class will only work in the Sencha native packager. The specific snippet states:

PLEASE NOTE: This currently only works with the Sencha Native Packager. If you attempt to listen to this event when packaged with PhoneGap or simply in the browser, it will not function.

Here's a link to the docs: http://docs.sencha.com/touch/2-1/#!/....device.Device

Brice

[JRS]

Hi Brice,

Thanks for all your help - I have builder working - however, I've noticed my App didn't work in the simulator after the build. After trying to debug it without success, I decided to copy the sources to Corodova www directory and test the app. The app worked without any issues.

I just wanted to let people know if they run into problems - try the manual method to verify before spending a lot of time - trying to figure out what might be happening with the build package.

I believe in my case the problems were being caused by the model & store - classes. But haven't really investigated much - just relieved it wasn't my app causing the crash!

Regards
JRS

[bricemason]

JRS,

Thanks for the feedback. If you uncover any specifics regarding potential bugs in the builder that may have contributed to your troubles, please give me a shout. Your use and critique of the project will help me improve it.

Brice

[pcr]

Hi Brice,

Would be nice to have such a nice tool

I watched your video and wanted to use Cordova Builder.
I downloaded unzipped and install your script on my iMac.
If I build my app this is reported:

-is-ios-init-ready:
[INF] [echo] checking ios initialization using the following resources:
[INF] [echo] cordova library ~/Downloads/cordova-2.3.0
[INF] [echo] ios tools ~/Downloads/cordova-2.3.0/lib/ios/bin
[INF] [echo] ios create script ~/Downloads/cordova-2.3.0/lib/ios/bin/create
[INF] [echo] ios project /Applications/Dropbox/Quitte/build/Quitte/ios
[INF] [echo] ios project built state...false
[ERR]
[ERR] BUILD FAILED
[ERR] com.sencha.exceptions.BasicException: one or more of the resources required to initialize the ios project cannot be resolved
[ERR]

I dont have a clue where to look to resolve this.

I get the same if I try the builer for android. The echos then say the same excecpt for android

I have cordova-2.3.0 and the android SDK installed yesterday.

Maybe there is something I missed to do....

Can you help me

I appreciate your help

[bricemason]

This has to do with the use of tilde expansion paths in your cordova.properties file. Change the path to your phonegap lib from using ~, to the full path and it should work. For example, I tested mine like this:

cordova.lib=~/lib/phonegap-2.3.0

and got the error but when I changed to the full path:

cordova.lib=/Users/bricemason/lib/phonegap-2.3.0

it worked fine. Give that a go and post back if you have any other troubles.

Brice

[pcr]

Ah Brice.

That make sense. Now there is another problem. In the meantime I switched to cordova-2.2.0. Now it seems it works.
I dived in the changes cordova made in cordova-2.3.0;

I know nothing about ant and/or java. But I gave it a try. Here is what I have.

I discovered that the bin directories of the different platforms are no more in lib/ios, lib/android.
Instead they are in cordova-ios and cordova-android

I changed som properties according these changes. But now android isn't build. What I saw is that <target name="-init-android-internal" never executed. I can't figure out why!!.

I know you can.

Did you allready have patched the builder for cordova 2.3.0???